It's 2010!
We have some strange customs of which New Year celebrations rank near the top. There is a desire among us to pick a day and time to sweep away the past foibles and start anew with a clean slate. We hope to put away all the bad habits or mistakes of our past and make resolutions as a binding contract with ourselves, in the hope of change.
The fact is that we begin another long journey of just over 583 million miles around our sun and only a hand full of us know it is taking place and fewer still even care. We live our lives on this beautiful orb with little thought of what a trip of this length entails. We don't have to pack, or prepare ourselves with a map for navigation. We are on cruise control within an environmental cocoon that for the most part meets all our needs. We whiz along at 30 kilometers a second without even our hair falling out of place. Even though we have traveled so far and so fast the reality is that we end up 365 days later in the same place relative to our star and the same state relative to our new years resolutions.
Happy New Year!
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