Who Decided When My Year Starts?
January the first, the new year begins. Some people go on diets and join gyms, and I just wonder why it’s suddenly a new year. Deciding when a new year starts is similar to deciding where the beginning of a circle is. So obviously, there’s no right or wrong day to start and end a year. But who decided our year starts in January?
I’ve done some research and found a ton of different possible reasons and absolutely none of them make any sense. It really might as well just be random because every explanation is either ridiculous, quite a stretch, or just plain silly.
I don’t even think January is a good time to start a year. It doesn’t hold any significance other than being close to Christmas. If I could pick a day for the new year to begin, it would be March 20th, the first day of spring. The cold is finally on its way out and the flowers are starting to bloom. It’s a symbolic time and would make much more sense to be the beginning of the year than January.
Unfortunately, I think we’re stuck with this January New Year business for at least the rest of our lives. And that’s also the same amount of time that it will piss me off.
Note: The Iranian New Year begins March 21, and is known as Nowruz, so someone actually did get it right.
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