New Year And Old Life
What’s the difference between 31st of December and 1st of January? What exactly do we celebrate the arrival of? What’s that something which we find in Jan 1 but not in Dec 31?
Is it that the world gets more peaceful? Is it that man gets more compassionate toward others? Is it that some divine power lands on Earth? We know it’s none of that, then what do we even celebrate?
The most fundamental meaning of new year is that the old calendar is replaced by the new one. If I’m understanding it correctly, we celebrate the arrival of a new calendar.
You’d receive messages from the people whom you didn’t even talk to for the entire year. In most of the cases, you just receive a downloaded picture, wishing you a Happy New Year, that’s “forwarded many times” and you would also see people burning firecrackers in the name of celebration.
What does it tell us?
It tells us that there’s something deep inside of us that gets really excited when it gets the sense of new-ness - whether it’s provided by a mental construct (like new year) or by a material object. The deepest of our voices want us to become something new, to transcend the old, to have something that didn’t exist before, and when something “new” arrives we can’t help but load ourselves with excitement.
We so deeply merge ourselves into the ocean of enthusiasm that we barely notice that no new year or new anything is going to give us the New that we deeply yearn for. We celebrated 2022 with the same enthusiasm, if not more, as we’re celebrating the year 2023 with.
Did celebrating 2022 give you the New that you’re looking for? The fact that the arrival of yet another new year soared up our levels of excitement shows that we’re still devoid of the New.
We’ve seen so many new years become old years and we know that the excitement lasts for a few days before it vanishes, but still we fail to notice that nothing new brings the freshness in our life. We continue to live the same old life and try to hide its oldness and stinkiness behind the corner of new year celebrations.
What’s “Happy New Year” on the 1st of January becomes “Sad New Year a week later, and “Sad Old Year” in December.
People make New Year resolutions on Jan 1st: “I will build a muscular body,” “I will become a dancer,” I will do this and that, but all the excitement that was there while making those resolutions loses its meaning after a few days, as shown by this study.
WE try to do new things without looking at the nature of old things we’re already doing, and it’s no wonder that new commitments fall prey to the old conditioned beliefs.
Our search for new is only limited to the outer world, therefore, it gives you the sense of change but you, as a person, don’t change because you never search for that Newness inwardly. You can celebrate as many new years you like to get the sense of newness, but as long as your central tendencies remain the same, as long as you continue to live the same old life, you’ll never experience the newness you’re inclined towards.
The change and newness we deeply yearn for won’t come by celebrating something new on the surface level; for that you have seen brings no newness in the life. Instead, focus on cleansing the dust you have accumulated throughout your life and then let the crystal of your existence shine brightly.
Once the change happens inside, you won’t need to wait for change to happen in your surroundings to feel anew. If you want a car to run smoothly, don’t focus too much on its mirrors, paint, or any other outer part; focus on keeping it engine healthy and repaired.
People celebrate New Year as they get prepared to spend yet another year living the same life with same tendencies as of the previous year. What kind of newness is this?
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