Humans are psychological beings. People are controlled or subdued by what they are made to believe and accept. Words, actions are tools often used to fit the mind into a particular frame of existence, this is the state called the psyche. The psyche now turns out to be the thermometer within us all that continually will adjust our emotions in relation to the happenings around us. Even when it has to do with imaginary things we seldom will be able to excuse our minds from being influenced.

As intangible as a new year cycle may be yet every new 365days gives a feeling of we getting into a new year. Interestingly, this new year ideology is a mere repetition of the numbering of the same known days, weeks and months. The psyche it creates is that it offers a sense of you having a new slate to work with in regards to your goals and aspirations; though this doesn't confer the grace that the mistakes of the past has been erased or that the consequences of such mistakes have been written off.

And for the fact that it is celebrated as a new year doesn't imply that the earth has been made anew. The clear sky still remains blue, the snow is still icy and whitish, the air that enters into our lungs naturally remains odourless, our homes hasn't left its previous spot, no new order of beings has joined us to inhabit the earth, etc. Things don't necessarily change because a new year has dawned. The change that takes place is how we humans plan our everyday life in a fixed time-line. Just as the life of a day is limited by 12hours of daylight so do humans retire their activities in a frame of 365days (or 366days for a leap year). Sadly, the excitement a new year creates wears out quite fast. Soon after the celebrations and merriments in honour of a new year people seem to resort to "business as usual".

Many soon forget their new year resolutions and therefore return to their old ways of living. Promises do get crowded out as many other critical demands begging for solutions dominate the mind. We soon settle for the familiar. Therefore, the psyche of arriving at a new year ought to be handled with caution. Placing much emphasis on an imaginary existence, as it is with a new year, at the expense of the assurance of the night and day is counterproductive. Instead of you waiting for a new year for you to rework your plans why not make every 24hours count. We live one day at a time not one year at a time.

You will never see it happen that a year will end as does nightfall, neither will a new year begin as does the rising of the sun for a new day. Let us be daily beings, always renewing our strengths with every sunrise and also resting from our labours when evening draws near.