86,400 seconds Question

What is the true significance of New Year's Day? Or birthdays for that matter. After all, when you think about it, New Year's Day or your birthday are each just but another day in our lives. Like any other day, each has 24 hours, or 1,440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds - for us to use or to waste.

Maybe that's it. Special days serve as milestones in our lives to make us reflect on what we have done with the time given us so far. To make us realize whether we have make full use of the ticks tocks or just wasted them.

So, what have you done with the previous 86,400 seconds given you?