Why do we celebrate New Years?

It seems pointless to celebrate something that could be perceived as being inevitable.

2017 will come and it will be roughly 365 days long.

What is there in a new year to celebrate?

A new beginning? A person having another go at life. Can't they just fix their problems when the problems arrive rather than wait for the new year to magically fix them.

There are a lot of people on the internet complaining that 2016 was a bad year because famous people who were also not in their peak of health, and therefore suffering from something, died. That so many people failed to understand the American political system makes it a bad year? No. People simply launch into easy conclusions while observers watch curiously and come up with ideas to play with that ultimately are not supposed to mean anything. e.g. Hoping that Donald Trump was talking rubbish the whole time and that the American system would force him to fit into the cookie-cut President that has worked out so well over the decades.

A new year cannot fix your problems. Get over yourself. Take on your problems one at a time and stop relying on the 12-month calendar to reset your life to factory default.

If you expect things to somehow improve because it's a different year, you're doing it wrong.

A year is a period of time in which things happen. The length of the period does not matter. The moon returned to the same point it was 12 months ago. Nice job moon, we were hoping you'd do that again. Donald Trump's election would have definitely ruined the position of the moon relative to the earth.

Are new years made like new folders on your computer? Is it merely an effective way of organising your files?

It seems like we're just celebrating the creation of a new folder to dump stuff in. The calendar will be the same.