Everything is always going to be a great and happy new year when anxious piss heads are waiting eagerly for their beloved countdown so they can raise a glass and sing that famous Burns poem. Well, the first couple of verses at the most. This is if they aren’t too busy wasting what’s left of their money, fighting each other or throwing up. Then a few days later when we have all settled down, the dreaded moment comes when it’s time to go back to work and the shite that was apparently over gets to start again until these false convictions of change and prosperity are brought out once more for the next year after being put away with all of the christmas decorations.
So what substantiates a new year? Why do we need it to make important, critical changes to our lives? What is it going to do to facilitate these changes in our attitudes and behaviour? Well the simple answers are that we don’t and it isn’t.