Holidays New Year's is completely made up

[TheVigilante]

December 31st and January 1st are identical days. Yet people genuinely feel different because everyone agreed to reset together.

31st vs 1st has literally no difference except people celebrate together and believe it's a "new year." And it gives people a new spirit, on different levels.

The ritual is fake. The feeling is real. The power comes from everyone believing it at the same time.

Money works the same way. Paper and ink. Completely worthless. Until everyone agrees it has value. Then it's the most powerful tool in the world.

Coming of age rituals. Turning 18 or 21 doesn't make you fundamentally different than 17 or 20. But society agreed those numbers mean something. So they do.

Consensus reality is both completely fake and perfectly real at the same time.

The calendar is just the default reset point society chose. Nothing stops you from picking your own.

You can decide March 15th is your new year. Or the first Monday of every month. Or every morning when you wake up.

New Year's works because everyone does it together. That collective energy makes it feel bigger than an individual decision.

But waiting for January 1st to make a change you could make today is just outsourcing your agency to a calendar.

New Year's is useful because it's a shared fiction everyone participates in. It gives people permission to restart.

But the permission was always yours to give yourself.

Celebrate New Year's if it works for you. Use that collective energy.

But remember that you're the one giving it power. And you can give that power to any moment you choose.

 

[polecat]

True but the start of the years is push for the Indians,Irish,Swedes,Americans,Mexicans ,Polish,Italians,Germans,Polish ,or others to adopt two ferrets

 

[BlogPro]

I agree partly with what you said. The part where you said shared belief amplified meaning.

However, I disagree on it being "fake".

Time is not fake. However, the metrics to measure it are social constructs - however, they're not fake, rather emergent.

We have a lot of those such as language, birthdays, money, laws and even our individual identities. With that rhetoric even those would be fake.

We've ALWAYS used milestones to measure growth, personal capacity, and even progress. A professional trajectory is mapped in years. A college degree requires 4 years. Those 4 years are arbitrary, but they signify a set time of education.

Even friendships and marriages are measured in years.

These help society measure progress, trust and responsibility.

20 years as an entrepreneur or a working professional doesn't make you an SME overnight, but it's enough to know a potential client/employer to know your worth.

The real reason 1st Jan matters isn't about beliefs, but about the synchronized effort. It's a time when millions, possibly billions, pause for a day, reflect on a period that's passed, remember ones who left, cherish those who arrived, reset personal goals and permission themself to change.

There's this cultural alignment that creates a psychological leverage, that cannot be replicated. Yes, you can have March 15 to reset. But then there's friction there. Unlike that, you're not starting alone on NYE rather participating in a shared checkpoint. Something that we humans, as a social being, thrive on.

And this common nature of the calendar is what makes things work. And translates into a collective phenomenon. And there are variations to this. Take the Indian Financial year, for instance. We tracked professional growth from April 1st to March 31st. Or Diwali, which occurs on different dates every year, where old books are shut and new ones opened.

Both truths can coexist - you always have the power to change and collective moments make change easier to sustain.

 

[pursuit]

I agree partly with what you said. The part where you said shared belief amplified meaning.

However, I disagree on it being "fake".

Time is not fake. However, the metrics to measure it are social constructs - however, they're not fake, rather emergent.

We have a lot of those such as language, birthdays, money, laws and even our individual identities. With that rhetoric even those would be fake.

We've ALWAYS used milestones to measure growth, personal capacity, and even progress. A professional trajectory is mapped in years. A college degree requires 4 years. Those 4 years are arbitrary, but they signify a set time of education.

Even friendships and marriages are measured in years.

These help society measure progress, trust and responsibility.

20 years as an entrepreneur or a working professional doesn't make you an SME overnight, but it's enough to know a potential client/employer to know your worth.

The real reason 1st Jan matters isn't about beliefs, but about the synchronized effort. It's a time when millions, possibly billions, pause for a day, reflect on a period that's passed, remember ones who left, cherish those who arrived, reset personal goals and permission themself to change.

There's this cultural alignment that creates a psychological leverage, that cannot be replicated. Yes, you can have March 15 to reset. But then there's friction there. Unlike that, you're not starting alone on NYE rather participating in a shared checkpoint. Something that we humans, as a social being, thrive on.

And this common nature of the calendar is what makes things work. And translates into a collective phenomenon. And there are variations to this. Take the Indian Financial year, for instance. We tracked professional growth from April 1st to March 31st. Or Diwali, which occurs on different dates every year, where old books are shut and new ones opened.

Both truths can coexist - you always have the power to change and collective moments make change easier to sustain.

Some point I wanted to say where already here
20 years old.is.nit.same.as 30 years old
A 30 years old has used more time..and may have learnt more than a 20 years old

 

[t2van]

It's all crap.

People see it as a new start. It's not.

Anything you can do in new year you can do now.

Peoblems you have on 31st will still be here on the 1st. They don't go away. I'm sure people are under that illusion on times.

People choose to start the new year with a hangover.

I find the whole concept strange.

Like most things in life I think there was a time for it. Survived a harsh winter and moving into sping and start of new.

Don't think it has that much of a bearing anymore. Least I don't think. It's just a reason to fall in the consumer trap, buy crap, drink, eat.

 

[Dopious]

Goals are never fake, and fresh starts are good sometimes. The feeling of fake is only true if you belive it, feelings are crucial for our existence as we are humans.

 

[roydan]

Everything you see around you is made up.

The gold standard? Made up. Who cares about gold? Don't get me started about diamonds.

You can either accept that dates, days of the week, and even the time are just a social accepted way of communication, or not..

At the end of the day, what gives things value or importance is what makes them real.

Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but god, whether you believe in it or not, has real effect on your life whether directly or through other people. It kinda makes it real, even if it isn't real.

 

[polecat]

Everything you see around you is made up.

The gold standard? Made up. Who cares about gold? Don't get me started about diamonds.

You can either accept that dates, days of the week, and even the time are just a social accepted way of communication, or not..

At the end of the day, what gives things value or importance is what makes them real.

Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but god, whether you believe in it or not, has real effect on your life whether directly or through other people. It kinda makes it real, even if it isn't real.

I would agree with you .

I don't really get if I am going to be honest I don't really get why some people are obsessed with buying gold or jewellery .

I always thought it was waste of money .

 

[t0mmy]

Happy new year guys