As the page turns…

 

Fixing the new calender on my wall and taking down the older one for yet 'nth' time yet again, I wondered… What if we stop keeping count of this value of 'n'? What if this system of measuring time in seconds, minutes, days, months and years was never invented? And for sure it has more to it than merely eliminating out the annual effort to change the calender! (Though it is a part of it)) 

As we enter another year, this one called 2026 with fireworks and celebrations as the clock struck 12, few of us entered with a set of resolutions (only to be broken in a few weeks, if not days!). Others step into it with a feeling of nostalgia, recounting and reliving the events and moments over the past 1 year. Others end the older one with a party and over meals. And a few (including a friend of mine) slept through the midnight hour uninterested in the chaos!

But beyond this midnight phase, what does it mean after all? well I believe it completely depends upon who is looking at it and how. Besides the fact that this one made me feel a little older and reminded me of my responsibilities (which I doubt I am mature enough to take up yet!), it means different things to different people.

For a student (who is burdened by teachers and parents) it means finding out another set of statements to be told as new year resolutions on being asked or another academic year filled with lots of assignments, tournaments, PTMs and exams! It might also be another year to get closer to your dream.

While for corporate workers beyond the emails and memos reciting season's greetings, it is finally a get out of '9 to 5’ cycle for a while. And for the government servants, yet another year closer to retirement and the pension (which however is uncertain at this point!)

For those for whom the Halwa Ceremony (the new financial year) is of real concern, this might just mean some time off (unless running into polls this year)

The number of calenders you have seen change also impacts the way you take it. For kids the Christmas break, wait for Santa to finally arrive and the lights are enough to fill their little innocent worlds. For a teenager a new year party, entries into diary or journals to sum it up. For someone who has seen enough seasons change, it is another year dropped from their lives as time is fading away further. They may keep worrying about what little is left or decide to live it at fullest (everyone has that choice- atleast theoretically!)

But this again brings us back to the same question, what if we just stop accounting it after all? What if we just stop counting the fall of years, the passage of time or the increasing age?

Well to start from, Historians would be the ones who would be the most hurt and it would later increase the business of carbon dating guys! (and I would be happy for I won't have to remember dates!)

But then there could have been (as always) alternatives to history. Perhaps the historians would have sinked the history of time to one particular major event and refer to it. Just like the year when ChatGPT was invented or Donald Trump went crazy (when Shantanu Naidu finally released his second book or when Taylor Swift got engaged!)

Age would still be accounted but in Stages of Childhood, Adulthood and old Age and so would be significant the season cycles.

Law would shift its focus from age, time and periods to social role, physical capacity. Statistical or materialistic academia would move towards the ends of philosophy.

Psychologically it would be relieving for many of us. (including me!) It would just fade away the anxiety of 'waste of time' and the scale of 'late in life'! with no deadlines to live life.

Though Christopher Nolan would be better person (rather the rightmost person) to write this alternative history, I just believe it would result in perhaps a slow human centric life!

 Well as it yet remains a distant dream (and since you have read this mess of thoughts till here), have another great 365’s ahead!