How to Conquer Melancholy on New Year's Eve
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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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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| 1:43.5 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the essay entitled New Year's Eve by Charles Lamb, published in 1821. |
| 1:55.8 | Everyone has two birthdays. |
| 1:59.1 | Two days at least in every year, which set us upon reflecting on the lapse of time as it affects our own mortal duration. |
| 2:07.6 | 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 |
| 2:19.0 | in it beyond cake and toys. But the birth of a new year is of an interest too wide to be ignored. |
| 2:27.3 | No one ever regarded the 1st of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, |
| 2:37.3 | and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common humanity. Of all sounds of all bells, the most solemn and touching is the |
| 2:45.3 | peel which rings out the old year. I never hear it without gathering up my mind to concentrate on all the images that |
| 2:53.2 | have been diffused over the past 12 months. All I have done or suffered, performed or neglected |
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