Random Calendar Events

I don’t really go in for New Year’s Resolutions. They don’t really change with me any way. They’ve been pretty much the same the past few years. In no particular order:

1. Become properly fit
2. Regular God Time with prayer and reading of the Scriptures
3. Avoid compromising on the Biblical standards of sexual purity
4. Move one step closer to ruling the world.

Funny how the passage of time seems so significant once we’ve put our stamp on it. We have Monday, Dé Máirt, Mittwoch, Jueves, etc/agus ar uile/und so weiter; 365.25 days a year; August* – a month so named because the nephew of a today well known failure (July) wanted to be remembered as having some sort of an impact on the world. See it doesn’t matter what you necessarily achieve. It’s nothing without someone to spin the tale. I’d be in agreement with this fine fellow. If something matters to you it starts now. Not with molly coddling from the rest of humanity.

I can see a certain understanding in it though. By imbuing our surroundings with our understanding it establishes some sort of control. A measure by which we can interact with that which surrounds us. The fear of the unknown is often the greatest fear of all. That which we do not know we cannot judge. That which we do not judge we cannot control. And that which we cannot control can have an impact which we cannot judge. It wouldn’t matter if the days of the week were named red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet. It would only matter that they had names.

Happy New Year. Unless you’re Chinese… or Jewish or some other culture that thinks the Gregorian calendar is just a bit crap :-)

* Am I the only one who finds it slightly odd that we use a base ten counting system yet aspects of our measurement of time are much more suited to a base twelve system?