What Time Is It?
Time is relative. This morning at 8 am, the broadcast news commentator shared that Australia was beginning to celebrate the new year — 2024–16 hours ahead of our midnight striking on the east coast in the United States.
I’ve been spending a few hours this morning pondering this. Time is relative. On social media the “memories” feature is one of the first I check out each morning. I enjoy revisiting the events of “this day” a year ago. and all the years before.
As happens annually, people start discussing resolutions, anticipated changes to make in their lives, a word of the year/theme, me included! And I wonder why we wait until a new year to determine we need to, and commit to, make changes. Why is this not an on-going process? Why do we not resolve to evaluate and re-evaluate that state of our actions, thoughts, lives at the start of each week or month?
Granted, hindsight is easier from a “big picture” perspective and vision from broader view is clearer. But I wonder if this annual tradition is recognized as “the way” and “the time” to assess our lives because it’s uncomfortable to do it on an on-going basis. It’s time-consuming, too, to set aside time on a regular, more short-term basis. Patterns aren’t usually recognized as such, until we see, well, a pattern! And we can’t always see them because they become a habit, which starts to feel normal.
