My new year's day ritual A new year is a new year. This sentence just popped up in my mind when I have been sitting at my desk to write something in the Italki. Now I'm enjoying a fresh mood for a new year as this new year has started. When I was younger, I used to give less importance to "new year's" things like making new year's resolutions, going for a sunrise, etc. I felt like those were rather cliches. But, as I'm growing older, I came to enjoy holiday seasons more, in particular, the end of the year and the start of a new year. On the last day of this year(I mean, the last year now), I had some quiet time for myself to look back on the whole year for a while, and made a small wish for an upcoming year. I have a habit of having some time alone at the night of my last day of a year, writing down my wishes and putting it in a little box so that I can open it at the last day of the next year. I did this this year as well and had some time to read my previous "yearly" wishes. It was quite fun to read them and even touching to find how much I've changed. For me, it feels like a proper ending of the previous year and a little preparation for an upcoming year. It does help me to enjoy a fresh mood the next morning, and it did this year as well.