Fresh starts thanks to the calendar they happen every year

 just set your watch to January, our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of new years resolutions, put your past behind you and start over.

 It’s hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed. 

Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins?

 It’s not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event— big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. 

What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, 

but it's also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.