I don't see the point. It's another day it's all the same in my book. I don't change by midnight. I'm not a new person. Who's to say my life with completely change or I'll do things I promised myself at 11:57 just to fit in with everyone.
I don't understand why people want to stand in Times Square at 3pm just to get a good spot. To watch a ridiculous "ball" drop. The anticipation doesn't build up for me. And if you are into New Years why don't you want to stay at home with loved ones or out parting when it's just noisy. I don't know, maybe it's just what people like. I'm not one of them. I see the ball and I'm like "ho hum. now we countdown." I don't count down. There is no point. To me it's like "Do you count down every night at 11:59:50? Because I know I don't. Then "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" I don't get it. It's fine to say it to people but what does it really mean? What are you takes on it?
Now, I know people go to Times Square for the experience (my sister did last night, but came home at around 10pm don't ask me). Who wants to experience of being FREEZING, squished, and watching a freaking ball drop. I just don't see it.
Sure people want to start fresh and new and they use the New Year as an excuse for that. I mean, you could start fresh and new on Monday November 15th, 2010 and it's all the same. Maybe it's an easier way to track weight loss, eating habits, or something else but when you think about every day is the same unless YOU change it. Why should a new year be any different.
Now, if anyone actually reads this, *cough* Arka or Katy *cough* I'm sure you have a ton of arguments. Let me hear them. I'm not easily persuaded. Try me.
Call me a pessimist. That's what I am.
P.S. New Years is a waste of money for everyone.
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I'm not gonna lie, I let myself get excited by things a lot of jerky, elitist nerds consider themselves too good for. If you don't let yourself get excited over even little things, life is going to suck. I have school spirit, and I get pissed off at people who think it's dumb to show a little school pride. I ADORE pep assemblies. I SCREAM the school song. If you let yourself get excited, if you don't care about the dumb elitist jerks, if you aren't a dumb elitist jerk, life is a hell of a lot more enjoyable.
I don't like your tone, missy. You make it sound like "If you think New Year's is exciting, then you're dumb." It's not dumb. It's something I just get excited about. The last time I can write "2009" on a paper I turn in. The last time it will ever be this decade. The last time, in the history of forever, it will be the year 2009. I get excited about time anomalies, like when it's 11:11 or 12:34, or when the date is May 5, 2005. I'm a dork. But there's something final about the year ending; something about moving forward, about growing and encouraging change.
It's like celebrating the birthday of the earth. Not really, but... kinda.
Also I'm a fan of the "firsts" and the "lasts." First thing I drank in 2010: Pepsi. First thing I ate, first place I slept, first website I went on, etc. Last thing I drank in 2009, last game I played, last time I went to the bathroom.
It's not that the new year magically changes you, but it gives you a reason to change, if you want to. It gives a reason to reevaluate how you're living life. It's a measurement of what you've accomplished. I can look back to last January 1st and see how I was then. I can see how far I've come in one year. In one decade. How far the country has come; how far the world has come.
Sure, humans are the only beings on the earth who measure the new year. Nothing "really" changes. But it is what you make it. So is anything else.
don't listen to Katy.
lol jk
Yeah, I agree that celebrating the "New Year" is kind of dumb in itself, and that encouraging such over-commercialized and shallow ways to get excited about a dumb, pointless thing is terrible and wasteful. And spaghetti is it pretentious as hell to get really excited when a ball drops announcing that it's a new year in ANOTHER TIME ZONE. That really gets me, that such things have been so hyped up when really they have no value.
But the thing is, it does have some value. It's a kind of symbolic change: from one year to the next, from one set of digits to another, from fall semester to spring, from old-you to new-you. Call it phony, but something about that has stuck with human beings for a while, and it does give them an excuse to reevaluate their lives and themselves. People need that sometimes--something big and dumb and useless to spark that kind of change.
Is it a completely good idea that we should all comply with? No. I think the New Year as a concept is good because it is a symbolic change blah blah blah, but as a practice it can get excessive, and provoke drinking and people to say dumb stuff, and waste money, and care more about things and ideas than people.
Really, I'm not a fan of getting mindlessly excited over any and everything, because I am pretty critical of stuff, but sometimes you need to have things to get excited about, because that's what life is all about. And the great thing is that you get to choose what you want to get excited about. You're at perfect liberty to ignore the crowd and do your thing, but there's nothing wrong with doing dumb stuff for fun sometimes.
Besides, when else are you going to have an excuse to kiss someone at midnight?
Dear Katy,
I never said I was "too good" to get excited it's just not something I do. We don't have pep assemblies so....we don't have a school song so....
If you think New Year's is exciting, good for you! It's just not something I've ever really been into. I understand the "lasts" and the "firsts" but will you remember then a year from now? Probably not.
It's not like celebrating the birthday of the earth at all. haha
Dear Arka,
To your first paragraph: Yes.
To your second paragraph: You sound like Katy.
Overall I think we are the same person. And I go to church for New Year's so that whole "kissing" thing is really "Hug everyone you can and say 'Happy New Year' before you leave."
it is a personal thing, how i feel about new year celebrations. a sort of selfish thing. i never liked new year's because it means either getting drunk or sitting around and watching everyone else get really drunk. no place for me to be alone and watch the twilight zone and fall asleep early. it is too much excessiveness for something merely unimportant on the surface. and i really like the twilight zone.
the whole resolutions thing, the changing, some people really need that. november may not be any different from the first of january but "new year's resolutions" gives us a name for wanting to be a better person. not everyone can find an excuse like that on their own, and excuses for wanting to be better are okay by me
Dear Blaze,
I am sorry. <3
And I also agree, people use it as an excuse to change when in fact 97% of people don't.
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