How do you perceive the change of a year ?

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Generaly, i don't like the change and my last concept were like if we began to the start each years, like an eternal resumption, January, february,...
Now i prefer see it as a continuation without rupture, it's a lot better.
So, Usually, How do you perceive in your mind the change of a year ?

Last edited by Ilan on 18 Dec 2011, 4:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't. I often have to ask people what year it is.

Seriously.

I usually perceive it as the moment between December 31st and January 1st, but that's just me (and I'll be perfectly honest, I didn't entirely understand the question)

It makes me want to turn back time. It really doesn't feel long ago that I was 16.

Hi. I'm not understanding the question. Are you referring to the difficulty of changing the habit of writing/thinking a certain number? Like, in January we'll have to write '2012' instead of '2011'?

Neither do I. I continue thinking it's the same year until enough people have corrected me (usually no earlier than mid-spring).

I perceive it a another complete rotation of the Earth around the sun. Also, counting years is a useful way to keep track of things, although I wish our calendar took into account Earth's and the moon's rotations, with weeks changing according to the phases of the moon.

I just perceive it as ''it's this time of the year'', like everyone else does.

The calendar in my head goes from January to December, left to right. Towards the end of the year, everything is on the far right of the timeline. When the new year comes, I start again on the far left.

Ok, thank you. I have to improve my english

Yes i did that before, now i see it as a continuation, not a repeat.
So 31 dec >> 1 jan
And no 31 dec >
<1 jan
Is it clear ?

So meybe another easiest question , Do you like the change of a year ?

Never bothers me really. I sometimes feel sad that here's another year over.

For some reason I feel sad that 2012 is the last year we will get a date all in the same numbers, for example 11/11/11, 12/12/12. You don't get a 13th month so you would never get another date where the date, month and year are all the same numbers....until next century.

I don't like dividing things into "time periods" at all whether it is a year, a week or an hour. I feel like everything is just one eternal moment.

the older i get, the more the minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and years blend into one another. it just keep going by faster and faster, too fast for me to keep track of it all.

I just see it as numbers on a calendar and I continue to enjoy the things that make me happy, no matter what the four digit number on the calendar says.

I have 3 lighting timers to adjust in my home so I see the year as sunset times I programme into them.

My birthday is in a few days time so I have grown up to realise my special day, Christmas then New Year all happen within a short period.
The rest of the year is boring.

I look at a calender or ask someone the date. Every January 1st is when I consider it to be a new year.