Why you ought not celebrate New Year’s Day

Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
3 min readJan 1, 2022
Courtesy of the Tennessee State University Museum, Nashville TN

If you consider New Year’s day ‘special’, well then, January 2nd is not, nor is January 3rd, up until perhaps, Easter Friday. Subsequent to Easter Monday, well you if you typically do not fast or dry fast, the next special day is December 25, 2022, and then on to January 1st 2023.

Suppose, however, that on New Year’s eve you celebrate all of those beautiful activities and events that made up 2021. Then, on New Year’s you celebrate family and friends and loved ones, your anticipation of January 2nd, and your reporting at work on January 3rd or whenever it is you are due back at work.

Well then, January 1st becomes extremely special — the first day you spent time anticipating and appreciating January 2nd and every day that comes thereafter.

It always is a mistake to regard January 1st more special than January 2nd, because it means the first day of the year is highlight of the year, not that day and every day that comes afterwards.

This New Year’s Eve, or New Year’s make January 2nd and every day thereafer the focus of…

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Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Educator and Researcher, Believer in Spirituality, Life is serious business, but we all are pilgrims so I write about important stuff with empathy and ethos