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Happy New Year
I'm baaaack! Did ya miss me?
Hey, am I the only one in the world who knows that 2010 is not the start of a new decade but the last year of the old one? I'm tired of hearing that we are entering a new decade. No, no... no. We will be finishing a decade at the end of 2010. Think I am wrong? Try this: the world begins, that first year is called year one. Year two, year three......year eight, year nine go by and how many years have past? Nine years. How many years in a decade? Ten. We do not end this current decade until December 31st, 2010.
Am I really the only one who cares about such technicalities? *Sigh* No one cared when I complained that 2000 was not the beginning of a new millennium, either. It's hard being a Virgo sometimes....
So, if this is the END of a decade, you still have a whole year left to finish whatever lofty goals you laid out for yourself for this decade. Bonus! Me? I don't do resolutions, never mind ten year plans. Life is too short, my friends. Living in the moment around here, thank you very much. Forget that end of a year, or decade or millennium, start of a new one stuff. Celebrating the Now is much more fun!
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I thought if you counted 2000 to 2009 it would be 10 years? 2001 to 2009 is 9 years. Where did the decade begin and where does it end?
That is my point. We do not have a year zero, so it starts at one. It is all arbitrary anyway, but you have to go all the way back to the beginning, not 2000. The calendar as we use it starts with the year one, mostly because it was done in arrears. I mean no one back then, in the year we call one AD, thought of the year having anything to do with the birth of Jesus, if they named the year with a number at all. So, decades start with one and end with ten.
Well, I had this discussion with Pat the other day because I was thinking about it and I came to the conclusion that you need to say that the very first decade was only 9 years. Because if we do it your way we have to say that 1990 was part of the 80's , 2010 is part of the aughts, 1930 was part of the 20's and so on. And that's just ridiculous. So, count the first one as a mistake or else you have to say all the following decades don't make sense. :P
Blame the Romans for not having a zero. It's is all their fault!
I'm all for celebrating this moment, right here, right now!!
I've been thinking the same exact thing!!!!
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