It baffles me. The smartest species of Earth celebrating its orbit around Sun, once a year, like clockwork (ha!), like they had something to do with it. Did they? Am I missing something here? Of course they didn’t. We did not. We simply decided, we will celebrate the arbitrary accomplishment, our planet’s that is, at an arbitrary hour of an arbitrary day of an arbitrary month of an arbitrary year.

I am writing this, away from all the gatherings of New Year’s Eve celebration, with this one question that is bothering me right now: Why today?

Today is 31st of December.

Last day of the Gregorian Calendar. I am Hindu. We welcomed a new-year about a gregorian-month-and-a-half ago, and my Chinese roommate welcomed a Chinese one about a month before then. So apart from those 2 billion humans, the rest are welcoming another one today. Which then begs the question: Why today? In fact, why any day? Why celebrate an arbitrary astronomical fact.

But to perform my humanly duty, Happy New Year, world.