“Happy New Year” is a greeting which is perhaps the one with least meaning. The best part of 7 billion people will wish others Happiness and Prosperity and all things Nice this 1st of January. If only wishes led to a behaviour consistent with the expressed wishes!
We could choose any day of our rotation around the Sun as being the start of a new rotation. The adoption of January 1st only dates back to the sixteenth century and is pretty wide-spread though the start of a New Year is still celebrated by some at various times in January, March, April, June and the autumn.
Once more around the Sun we’ve come and the start of another rotation,
Twenty fourteen we name it, of the five billions since creation.
Fireworks, champagne and goodwill galore,
And it’s been a hundred years since the First World War,
But nothing’s new under the Sun and what’s happened before will happen again.
And though I’m not sure what it means, I wish you all
A Happy and Prosperous New Year
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