January - probably the strangest month of the year

For me at least, January seems to be a very strange month. It goes by so quickly on the one hand, while, on the other, it simply drags on and on and on. January seems to have more weeks in it than the usual four and a bit. It's nearly the end of January and yet so much seems to have happened since the start of the year. I keep asking where the time went, but there are still six more days to go.

A very strange month. Maybe it exemplifies Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. As the quote attributed him goes...

                     “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. 

                       Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”.

And that is January for you...one moment it's rushing past you, and the next moment, it's positively dragging its feet.

Here's a picture of Janus, after whom the month was named. He was, to quote Wikipedia, "the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames and endings."