it's 2023...isn't it?

depends...contingency ( there's that word again...inescapable ) is at work here...all you need to do is look at time zones to realize clock time is an arbitrary system of both command and control ( what time is it and when do i have to be at work? ) and an effort to give a framework to the experienced elasticity of time..."time flies when you're having fun" and boredom is a defense against toxic social situations...either way, time is not consitent in its passing...calendars are not fo much more use...it's not even christmas yet in the julian calnedar and new years isn't for another thirteen days..although it will be 2023 on the fourteenth...it's the year 230 in the french revolutionary ( which i am told is actually a misnomer ) calendar and new years was on the twenty-second of this past september...on the eighteenth of july ( the first of muharram ) the islamic claendar turned over to the year 1444 while the jewish calendar made it to the year 5783 on rosh hashanah ( the twenty fifth of this past september )...so who actually knows what year it is or how quickly...or slowly ( or an admixture of the two ) whatever year you choose to believe it is will pass? time isn't really very well defined...commerce runs on clock time...nature on event time ( a version of time far more closely related to reality...ask my asparagus )...and when i assert chronal autonomy it passes in a variety of ways ( usually quickly )...whatever your year is here's hoping it is a better one than the last and that you get, at least, some measure of equanimity and some of what you fancy...however you view it your alotted time isn't getting any longer.