New year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year is incremented.
New year means new life because all the bad things we have will be trown and make ourselves new. According to the catholic tradition, 1 January is the of the circumcision of our Jesus Christ.
Way back year 2011, we should forgive all our enemies, the heartaches and hatred to them. Because it is new year and it is time to change and make the 2012 new and fresh.