As we enter 2025, the year of the snake, New Year’s resolutions become more and more essential to a new beginning, to improve your current self and to make the most of that full year. On New Year’s Day, people across the globe stand together with their families and create annual or short-term goals for the rest of the year. There are different traditions in different countries, for example, in Spain everyone gathers before midnight on the 31st of December and after every come of the clock, they each eat one grape until 12 has past and New Year’s resolutions become celebrations beginning with a unanimous cry of ‘Feliz Navidad’. Danes (Denmark) throw plates at doors in the hopes of banishing evil spirits and leap off chairs to, metaphorically, leap into January. Finally, in Greece, people hang onions outside their front door to symbolize rebirth. As we can see, every country has a different way of celebrating and commemorating this passage, but everyone resolves to become a better version of themselves in the New Year.
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