We still need to bring in the New Year? We still need religious festivals to break up the months and engage our minds about time moving? Is it all about marking the year with points where we can have a change of pace and enjoy something different to the usual days?
It is odd for me as a writer to see people engaging in this nonsense because all the other days they could do just the same, mark time, mark nationhood, mark belief and have no need for a change of pace. But the stress relief of these celebrations is something they desperately need because they have managed to confine and restrict all their other days. The difference from one day to the next is dependent on one’s way of thinking, nothing more.,
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#hannukah
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