A Poet's New Year Celebration

10 months ago

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Here is what Miroslav Antic said about the New Year in an interview. 

CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR

I've always been annoyed when people invent a day of the year and say, This is the New Year! And then they celebrate the New Year.

I don't like calendars. The New Year can be every day; it can be in June,  it can be in April, it can be in March, New Year.

First, it can be when a person has money; secondly, it can be when a person is happy; and thirdly, why does it always have to be New Year's when it's New Year's for others? Sometimes it's New Year's for me, so I walk down the street and shout: Alas, it just started! And they don't believe; they say, Impossible. Today is (let's say) April 15, Where can you get the New Year?

And for me, the New Year begins with some moments that are dear to me in my life, when I decide to create something, to do something, to be something, to make something last in me...

And if I were to congratulate someone on the New Year (and here I am; I have the opportunity to say it on the radio this time), I would wish people a New Year not only on January 1, but on all those days when they are well, when they seem to wallow in front of themselves and alone in front of others, when it seems to them that their day is somehow better than yesterday, and when it seems to them that the day is worse than it will be tomorrow.

And there is always some kind of tomorrow that will be much better than today.

Miroslav Mika Antić