Before I dive into explanations, wishing you a blockbuster New Year!
I hope you get to fulfill your promises and resolutions by the end of 2024.
And that allows me to share my reason ― which you will find absurd. My reason behind ditching the whole New Year resolution thing. If you’re making resolutions, by all means, please continue doing so. Didn’t I just tag my reason as absurd?
A year is a convenient way to know that our Earth has completed one revolution around the Sun. 1 revolution = 1 year.
So, our Earth moves at a relative velocity of ~1,00,000 km/hr !!
And as we know, the Sun is not static. It is also moving. Approximately relative velocity of ~70,000 km/hr. It takes the Sun 225 million years to make one revolution around the center of the Milky Way. (I would call it an actual New Year. But then, I wouldn’t be there.)
This means we are on a long journey where it will take 225 million years to return to the same spot in space.
In short, we are doomed. I would rather enjoy the 1,00,000 km/hr bumpy ride than pressurize myself with abstract, unreachable, eccentric wishlists that I have to complete under 1 revolution.
That’s Earth from 6 Billion km away, captured by Voyager-1 (1990) |
I hope you understand this is not the real reason. Because I don’t have any solid reason, not to have new year resolutions😄 It is just too difficult to follow through.
Cheers to 2024!
See you next year.