locking the old year

closing the old year is something solemn, a ceremony where we first standstill by the events and achievements of the year, so it can ripe and age and finally locked. the past, we suffered, is gone forever and it seems almost indecent to look back on it. then there exists ceremonies, which are looking forward to the new year with ritual incantations such as good intentions, implying that the old year ended in the right way and with legal right.

of course it is also true that in the old year there has been much suffering and in the past year in particular, because this is the year, that needs to be locked, but one must not forget that positive images from negatives ones has been made. the latter should then be extracted and sublimated in the spells of the new year. hence the word "solemn" as a figurehead that stands majestically in front on the foredeck of the ship, that navigates new worlds and watery tears will the ship sail.