..with the perspective that a new year shouldn’t make any resolution more definite, meaning change doesn’t have to wait until a new year begins.
You’re completely right, but think of it this way. Pretend you’re waking up for school. Your alarm rings and you wake up, but you don’t want to go to school. You feel tired so you hit snooze and give it some more time. Then comes the specific time where you decide whether you wake up and go to class or sleep in and miss it. However, you do have the option of going to class late. That specific time is New Years and you either decide to start to follow a resolution or you don’t. Keep in mind. You could’ve started a resolution at any time just as you could’ve “woke up for class” at any time. The thing is, the fact that the new year is the beginning of Earth’s cycle of rotation around the sun notes a refreshing feeling that a cycle of our lives has passed, just as some people receive the feeling of being a year older on their birthdays when they’re just twenty-four hours older than that exact time the day before. To them, they feel that being alive on that specific day which Marks their how-many years of being on the planet is different from the others because they know that another cycle of their lives have passed and a refreshing new one has begun.
In simpler words, people can start resolutions before or after a new year which is basically any time they want, but the new year inclines people to make resolutions because the start of a new cycle reminds people that change is possible, change is good, and it’s up to them to decide whether or not they really truly want change in their life.
Just my perspective on a perspective. Kudos if you noticed I capitalized the word that’s pretty much also my name. Haha.
