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1 January 2011

Happy New Year

Such a stupid concept, why will we be happy just because the date is changed?
Its changed everyday. one or the other digit is changed everyday ..the new year will be just as miserable as the other years of our life. :-(

Edit: apparently being cynical like this is very common, my friend says

It is not just you. Many people have asked similar questions. So many people asked such questions that some clergy made it into a religious custom :-)
Jewish people have a custom - Ma Nishtana
at the last day of pass-over a child [or somebody] asks "why is this evening different from any other evening"
Elder people are supposed to respond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_four_questions

So yes, the day is no different. However if you treat it just like that it will be just that. But we want days to be different - we want everyday to bring in some change, turn preferably good :-) But we also know it is not the case. So we designate a day that we consider will make a change or at least we will make some thing
different - starting from a new diary....


I liked the idiomatic use of Ma Nishtana
  • Child: "Dad's in a bad mood today."
  • Mother: "Ma nishtanah?" :-D

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