Here we are again, getting squared away in the New Year. Some of us take comfort in its resemblance to the Old Year, and some of us wish it were newer than it's likely to be — a more radical departure, an unfamiliar train boarding at an unfamiliar station and headed who knows where. Make of this holiday what you will, but it is the only one in the calendar devoted to acknowledging, if not precisely celebrating, time itself. And there is nothing stranger than time.
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Last night, when we crossed from 2012 into 2013, there were no guards at the border, no passports or visas required. How easily we brought with us all our possessions. To some. this is a blessing, and, to others — well, it recalls Thoreau's passage about some poor immortal soul "creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed." There is about this day an urge to come into the New Year newly shorn.
But no matter how effortless it is crossing into the New Year, it's easy to feel as though the transition is never quite complete. Instead of feeling that time is recommencing, refreshed, it feels as if we have somehow elongated time, stretched it out from some point in the past. Who in, say, 1980 could imagine entering 2013? From that long ago vantage, this year seemed like a science-fictional year, a date meant to sound far-off, alien, yet not so remote that it is completely unfamiliar.
That is the puzzle of beginning the new year. It is always someone's inconceivable year, unimaginably distant, yet here it is, waiting for what we make of it.
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