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Date: 2012-01-01 04:30 pm (UTC)(Hey, I get excited when a car's odometer rolls over to a round number, too; rollovers are fun. And so is rolling down grassy hills, and Ferris Wheels, and somersaults, and cartwheels, and merry-go-rounds, and ... )
Seriously, though (as serious as I ever get, anyway, which, being born under the sign of the Goat is "not very") what makes a day or a ritual powerful is not the day itself, but what humans are prompted to do together. And a large contingent of people simultaneously resolving to be optimistic, at least a little bit, is as important as any memorial of war or power, or the setting of national boundaries.