So, recollecting these do warm the proverbial cockles of the heart. Which makes us come to the downsides. To be factual, one may wish to include the big unhappy events in the last 365-odd days' roster too. Do humans, especially in a season marked as 'festive', really wish to be reminded of unfortunate events or tragedies of the last one year? There are other times and seasons for such 'honesty'. The other reason for remembrances of the year past being a bit tiresome is because of the 'recentability' factor - more recent events, say, in the last four months will remain fresh (read: boring) to the onlooker than older events forgotten, if not in the mists of time, then in its smog.
