Starting of the new year is the starting of just another day…..

 What difference does it make if December turns into January except for the records in computers? In fact there are several new years in one single Christian year…. the Islamic year, the Chinese year, the new year for a baby born, a new year for a couple getting married, a new year for a student starting a new standard, a new financial year for a company and so many more new years in just one calendar year. Personally I think that starting of any new year doesn’t really have anything to do with how you feel unless there is some direct, life changing impact of it on you. For me a new year or a new beginning is when the monotony of routine is broken and something different comes along. Likewise how can a birthday ensure growing up?

 Two days ago at a BBQ we were having a discussion on guys marrying older girls, while every one of us thought it rather odd and quite misfit…one guy kept on exclaiming “So what’s wrong in that?”….at the time I remember telling him at long last: “Ok bro you can go ahead a do that and nobody will say anything”

However when I got back home and seriously thought about the question, I realized that there really was nothing wrong or odd about it except for the social acceptance of such a match. Besides having some natural reasons for example, often the girl losing her beauty and looks earlier than the guy.  

Practically thinking, if you turn from 19 to 20 in one day of your birthday and yet you are unable to understand something you couldn’t understand a day before then definitely you have not exactly grown older mentally….only physically. The day you solve a long entangled mystery you get a step older and wiser and then maybe you can again celebrate your birthday. Birthdays and calendar marked age definitely matters but so does the mental age of a person…..A person could be 30 something and still be a stupid, vain mutt while a person in his mid twenties could be wise beyond his years though lacking the insight coming from the experiences. It’s all about growing inside and learning to stay happy which can give you the benefit of growing up and yet staying young.

Around 6 years ago I read “Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens and fell in love with it despite it being so dark and depressing….in it was a character, an old woman who lived within the confines of a dark room where there was no light, no time and nothing to indicate that time is a moving entity.For her time and age did not even exist but it does for us because we have so many things impacting our biological ages for example emotions, stress, gravity etc…..thinking about that now made me realize what Einstein meant by relativity….and as I shall advance in reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief history of time” I might better understand the ever intriguing concept of time but for the time being suffice it to say that several new years come and go and there isn’t an iota of a difference in the day of 2008 that unveils from the night of 2007. Difference comes when you make a new beginning  for yourself. _______________________________________ 

Oh and btw on Friday I came to know that back in 1752 when Britain decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar they ate up 11 days to properly balance the dates. 14^th September came directly after 4^th September….It then struck me that if I start multiplying 11 days into the number of years from 1752 till 2007 approximately 255 then we have (11×255 = 2805) 2805 days. 2805 days are equal to 2805/365 ( I am neglecting the leap years in all these years for the sake of simplicity….however if anyone is interested they can find the number of leap years by finding all the years divisible by 4 and get some exact figures!) So 2805/365 = 7.68493 yrs.  This means that all of us have some 7 years lost somewhere in this calendar that we are following, who knows it might still just have been 2001 if those 11 days had not been missed! Whoa….they wish me ‘A‘ happy new year….I found ‘7′ of them….but am not sure if they are the happy ones or otherwise!