When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you're rich.

No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

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