PT: To New Beginnings (Insert Fart Noise)

Ben Gibbard said it best when he sang, "So this is the new year/And I don't feel any different."

Why do people have this idea that because the calendar goes back to January 1st it's a grand moment of change? It's absolutely baffling to me. The slate isn't wiped clean. Whatever mistakes or regrets you made or had at the end of the year still carry on to the next year. First off, time is made up. When the world was created, it wasn't put into 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour and so on. It was light and darkness and that was it. Flipping the calendar to January from December doesn't mean you get to leave everything you don't want to take with you on December 31st the previous year.

As I think about this more, I find this is why I have such a problem with a lot of modern society. We have such a lack of responsibility it's dumbfounding. How are you ever supposed to grow as a person if you leave your problems behind and use the excuse, "It's a new year." Are you fucking serious? People grow based on how well they handle problems and situations that come up in their lives. If they all get left behind, we're filled with a world of immature douchebags who look forward to every December 31st because it gives them a false sense of hope they created. If you're one of these people, there's a high probability that you're going to continue making the same mistakes until you get some courage and face the problem head-on. Not doing so is baffling to me.

How about this, America (or the ten people that read this, ie: contributors); let's be accountable for our actions, not just from this year, but from all the years that have passed since the clean slate bullshit excuse came in to play. If you fucked up in 2006 but we're too afraid to face it, do so now. If you don't you're just creating a world where it's okay to live and make mistakes without really getting to the root of the problem because January 1st is always just around the corner, and that means you can start over and be whoever you want. That's not a world I want to live in. That's not America. That's not even Mexico.