Why do we have new year celebrations? The clock doesn’t care what time it is. The universe really doesn’t care at all. Time for us, is a human construct – a way to mark the days and measure productivity, vacation, or use it to bake a cake correctly. In the grand scheme of things, marking the end of one year and the start of a new one seems rather pointless.

But is it?

Humans, need closure. We go out of our way to find it too. Why do we continue to search for lost people when the amount of time passed means there is really no hope for survival? Why do we dig deeper into long forgotten history? We have an ache, a desire to close the past.

Marking the end of the year is the same. We can close the book on things that did not go well or reflect on the progress we have made. We need to put things in their proper place and move forward with our lives. It is just what humans do.

As 2018 starts, take time to reflect, put things in order and close the chapter of your life called 2017. Then, with renewed energy and strength, open the next one – the one marked 2018 – and start again.