"New Year Wishes Aren't Enough For You"

By The Nigerian Voice
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The New Year is celebrated all over the world with great enthusiasm. The year ends at 11:59pm, so next year's Gregorian month begins. However, this is quite different from the different native calendars that races and people have.

For example, the Igbo people in Africa have a thirteen-month calendar, quite different from the communities in the Indian Republic.

In India, the New Year is determined by many different dates that coincide with different calendars in Hindi, Bengali, and so on. The Chinese New Year is celebrated in February.

In accordance with the British calendar, the New Year is celebrated in the Gregorian months. Even in the Gregorian calendar, there is confusion about when different countries welcome the New Year. For instance, as we got closer to 2022, countries around the world began to usher in the start of 2022 with a pound. People were pondering which countries would be the first to start the New Year and which would be the last. You will see that on the following page.

New Years is one of the oldest festivals. Though, the methodology of viewing it around the world has been modified over time. Some say the holiday celebrations are traditionally related to "fetishes". To many people, however, a brand new year symbolizes a brand new beginning, perpetually teaching a place like the United States to keep moving forward. The aim of this is to sit back and look at what individuals have worn out in the past year, like successes and failures, learn from their mistakes and look to the longer term with new hope.

People make resolutions that should never feel unhealthy at the end of the past year, but welcome the New Year with nice enthusiasm and happiness. Individuals always plan ahead of time to reflect on the passage of time, embrace the possibilities, and try to improve their lives by doing so. It's fun because of the songs, delicious food, and fascinating activities. Some folks hold non-secular events to glorify their "God" and welcome the New Year.

This book nonetheless exposes that the different peoples, abandoning their aboriginal spiritualities and native calendars for the Gregorian calendar may mar their New Year wishes. The book posits that while people make resolutions, the year often does not run smoothly given the man-made and natural disasters that always surface each year in different countries and cities, with the Covid-19 and OMICRON variants as emphasis.

The book unearths how rich countries are usurping low- or middle-income countries through degradation of their environment, and climate change poses a threat to people's settled wishes for the year.

The writer wants his reader to ponder if it is truly a “Happy New Year” after reading.