The First Days of 2019

Flipping the calendar to a new year stirs emotions inside of many humans.

We’ve been conditioned that this simple act is the start of new things, the ending of the old, a reset button and an excuse to party our minds out.

Yet, while I tend to start getting reflective the middle of every December as my birthday and the holidays approach, New Years has always baffled me a bit. The fact that it happens in the middle a season has always been the strangest thing to me. Wouldn’t it make more sense th...