By AMANDA BROWN
December 30, 2017
“The whole thing is a build up to an anti-climatic 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2, Happy New Year! And people kiss and it’s cute and kind sweet to see all the people, and then after that comes the dazed, wow, now the number of the year has gone up and it’s already started, and time just keeps moving, and now this party is kind of over, or on the way out.”
Yes, celebrating New Years Eve is overrated! Especially here in America.
Here’s why:
Obviously every day is another New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve so the concept is confusing.
Many cultures have a New Years Eve celebration that is wrought with meaning and symbolism. We Americans have kind of lost that deep connection to it and now we wear plastic hats and glasses that say New Years and we don’t really know why!!
It’s basically a celebration of the collective existential crises we are all going through: ‘Let’s all be happy that we made it through another year and kiss for luck so that we make it through the next!’ What? Stop right there. That sounds like way too deep man, I don’t want to think about all of my mistakes from the year and set unrealistic, stressful goals for the next regardless but now I’m supposed to do it and enjoy myself? It’s like a set up for a bad party.
The whole thing is a build up to an anti-climatic 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2, Happy New Year! And people kiss and it’s cute and kind sweet to see all the people, and then after that comes the dazed, wow, now the number of the year has gone up and it’s already started, and time just keeps moving, and now this party is kind of over, or on the way out.
Nobody knows the words to Auld Lang Syne. Heck, bet hardly anyone knows how to spell it! I almost put Auld Lang Zang.
Many cultures have a New Years Eve celebration that is wrought with meaning and symbolism. We Americans have kind of lost that deep connection to it and now we wear plastic hats and glasses that say New Years and we don’t really know why!!
