It is a new/fresh year and I used to believe it is a worldwide thing to celebrate the beginning of another year, but I learned today that, not everyone celebrates a new year, I innocently greeted the woman selling fresh pepper down the road ''happy new year'' as our normal practice and her Son replied sharply, ''happy new day'' while her mother completely ignored, I immediately understood that, based on religious belief, they did not celebrate the beginning of another year like most of us did. While today is not the first time I am hearing that there are people who do not celebrate/believe in the concept of the new year, today is actually the first time I am seeing someone who does not believe in the idea of celebrating a new year for myself.
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This realization, however, stuck something different in me as I started to wonder why we really celebrate the new year because for most of us, we were born into the culture and we simply follow suit with the traditions all through our lives. I decided to read and make more research on the reason why people choose to celebrate the start of a new year.
Why do we believe that at the strike of the clock on a particular day, something changes, why do we even take this day as very significant, what makes this day different from every other day we have lived, I will be dropping some of the response I got from my little research in this post, but please tell me what you really think through the comment section.
Kindly bear in mind that, this post is not to criticize any belief but it is to enlighten us.
In reality, why we celebrate the new year is a question for many. A study by British psychologist Richard Wiseman found that “Nothing changes on New Year's Day.”
What makes the new year celebration day different is that it makes the fact that, we have lived for another 365 days, a lot of people consider this as a mark for a new beginning as well as an opportunity to apply changes into our lives as it is the beginning of another year.
Some people celebrate the new year because of the strong significance it has been able to hold all through past decades. The strong belief here is that, whatever we do on this day, will have a strong impact on the way we live all through the new year.
Another reason why people tend to celebrate the new year is for spiritual reasons, it is strongly believed that there is a forceful spiritual significance with the beginning of another year and there are things that have to be done in order to get the best out of the year. So what is your own reason for celebrating or not celebrating the new year? kindly leave your opinion in the comment section, as this will enable us to get a better understanding of the subject matter. I wish everyone a beautiful 2023.