As a human being I'm able to relate to the whole "new year, new me" rather cliche, unlikely resolution, but why do we associate intrapersonal, and individualistic change with a new year?

This concept has forever stunned me.

It's interesting watching people hit this illusory "enough is enough" button come this time of year, as if they've somehow forgotten that a year is the mere product of man's attempt to measure another resolution around the sun; it really doesn't matter whether the year is old or young.

Contrary to popular belief, timing has little to do with the changes we commit to, and implement into our daily lives. It doesn't matter whether you start using the gym in January or November, the point is to commit!

This ideology that a new year clears the slate probably contributes to the lows we experience once we collapse from the optimistic high a week or two into January, because the universe doesn't gift us a "new slate" when the clock strikes 12. If anything we drag the same stress factors, weaknesses, insecurities, poor habits, economic, and emotional instabilities, with us, into the next year, just as we carried them throughout the prior day, and the day preceding that, and so on and so forth.

Once we realize that we're still, more or less the same person we were December 31st, on February the 24th, we feel like we've overestimated ourselves.

Many of us are so enthralled by this idea of a clean slate that we feel more powerful, more resilient, and more willing to put in more effort than we actually are willing to contribute once we arrive at the realization, that the slate is just as disastrous a frenzy of entropic nothingness, as it was at 11:59pm.

Life is all about setting goals, and progressing to accomplish them, but not out of cultural compulsion. So let's all put down our freshly written "new year's resolutions," and accept the idea that anyone can change anything, whenever they want, during whichever month, at any age, under any circumstance, if they are simply, willing.