Bimbi's Mind

So, we are moving into a new year. The "new year new me" cliques have already started buzzing with resolutions that possibly won't make it into February (we all know you can't change!). The pessimists are saying they don't feel any difference compared to when they were children(we get it, you had a great childhood). And I am here, writing this article in traffic. I mean what is the big deal about new years anyways? I mean the yearly calendar system was created to properly pinpoint and anticipate seasons and to create a sort of chronological sense of orderliness in human history.     Each year stands alone as an independent entity in history but the transition between the years kind of make it anticlimactic for me. A second is all that separates 2014 from 2015 and a second will also separate it from 2016. To increase the hype around new years for me, we would need at least a day of limbo between the years to properly accentuate the transition and its effects(you...

 Since the inception of time, there has always been the debate and the conscious effort to differentiate between the clean and the unclean. As civilization changed, so did the mindsets of the people. People tried to drop things of the old and tried to keep up with the "status quo" of what is generally believed to be clean and unclean.        The difference between this certain dichotomy in morality digs deep and can be compared to the difference between the Yin and the Yang, the right and the wrong, the path on which we set ourselves and the path deemed to be absolute. What is the "clean"? To a hygienist, the clean is the management to the barest minimum, the existence of germs. To a moralist, the clean is the path completely devoid of wrong. To the culturally inclined, the clean is what is done in accordance to what was done by the forefathers.