New Year Resolution🥂
BUON ANNO, fellow countrymen. Lend me your ears! I stand(or write in my case) in front of you to wish you a belated happy New Year! Before you think that I have gone nuts, BUON ANNO means happy new year in Italian. As per Know it all Google, m ost historians believe Babylonians were the first to make New Year's resolutions as we do today, although this famed ancient city held its New Year celebration in March, not January, in accordance with an agricultural year. During this religious festival, Babylonians either crowned a new king or proc laimed their loyalty to the existing king. Citizens also swore to pay off debts to their gods, and promised to return borrowed goods. Those promises and declarations are thought to be the first New Year's resolutions. This begets the question as to why we keep new year resolutions ?. T o sum up my extensive research, a New Year gives a new beginning to us, a blank slate to turn a new leaf. Again, this...