How to Conquer Melancholy on New Year's Eve

How to Conquer Melancholy on New Year's Eve

Author: The Living Hour December 30, 2025 Duration: 9:41

Listen to episode 1082 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering Melancholy on New Year’s Eve. Edited and Adapted from an essay by Charles Lamb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone has two birthdays: two days, at least, in every year, which set us upon reflecting on the lapse of time as it affects our mortal duration. As we grow older, the custom of honoring our proper birthday often passes away and is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand anything in it beyond cake and toys.

But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be ignored. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common humanity.

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