[OT] New Year's--Who gives a crap?

[Nightfall]

Watching the ball drop...new year's resolutions...Auld Ang Syne...honestly, I must ask what's the friggin' point? Exactly what are we celebrating here? Dick Clark making it through another year? I think not.

What new year's is is the celebration of the calendar. You're holding a party for time, people, don't you see this? This "holiday" is just another of the many many excuses throughout the year to drink and feel Mary. Like you need another one. Instead of celebrating surviving another year, we should be mourning the part of our life that has just passed.

Am I a just a crazy old loon or does anyone else feel this way?

Well I wouldn't make a big deal out of it, since to me it has no purpose beyond drinking. But I don't mourn my life. I save that for funerals. In any case Napftor, if helps think of it like this. New Year's Day means it's THAT much closer until Creature Collection Revised comes out and THEN the Player's Guide to Wizards, Bards and Sorcerers!

 

[Nightfall]

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I've been pretty much celebrating every day as well. The problem is all the hype. "Oh, did you make your new year's resolutions up yet?" To which my unspoken response is, "Oh shut up." The problem is probably that my grandfather is close to death. But I've had the same feeling about New Year for years..."a random chronological event." It's much ado about nothing.

Dying does tend to take the wake out your sails for much of everything. But if help Napftor, you have my condolences and sincere wish that at least, as you get older, you find a little more peace each day.

 

[Napftor]

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...New Year's Day means it's THAT much closer until Creature Collection Revised comes out and THEN the Player's Guide to Wizards, Bards and Sorcerers!

Hehe! I don't know what I do without ya, buddy.

 

[Nightfall]

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Hehe! I don't know what I do without ya, buddy.

Just trying to give you perspective Napftor. Me, I judge the years by what's coming out. 2003 looks good for me. New works from Robert Jordan and George RR Martin. Thus the good cheer. But also the player's guide's for sure as well as Penumbral Pentagon.

 

[Magius del Cotto]

From New Lang Syne (Thank God it's Over) by Jim's Big Ego:
"My friends and I had been thinking, 'Another year's come and gone...,' and so we started drinking, and singing New Years songs, like Old Lang Syne and Comes a Time, and Prince's 1999, but none of those songs really did it for us at the time."
Indeed, New Years is made to celebrate the beginning of a new year, an arbitrary marking on a calender, but it's meaning is a time of contemplation on what has come before, and what is yet to come. Yes, most people do party during this time, but I feel that they're missing the point. It's a celebration of renewal, a rebirth of ideals to which we all hold ourselves: thus the resolutions that we all make a half-effort to at least say.
A time to think on what we are and what we want to be. A time where we might actually have the will, at least for a while, to bring about the changes that we want, that's what New Years is about. Instead of going to a party this year, think on your life and try to tackle those things that you know you need to face. You'll end up a happier person, maybe not that night, but in the long run.
And if your cheer is "Thank God it's over," then remember, just like the dawn, this is the beginning of a new year, where you can bring about the changes that you want.

 

[Sanackranib]

throughout the year to drink and feel Mary. Like you need another one.

Just a guess, but you aren't Irish are you?
any holliday is an excuse to party. and if you get paid to take the day off then so much the better!

 

[the Jester]

Personally, I love New Years. It's one of those times when I achieve extremely high levels of intoxication- something I don't really do all that often anymore (mellowing with age, I guess... )

Really, it has less to do with the passing of the year and more to do with good company, food, drink, and weed- at least for me.

 

[arwink]

I like new-years. It's one of those holidays my working friends get off, but aren't obligated to spend with family

 

[Numion]

Christmas is all about family.

New Years is about friends.

IMO it's nice thing to have them quite close to each other, so you'll get together with all your important people at least once a year..

..and hey, there's never enough valid excuses to get drunk and have a blast!

 

[megamania]

New Years...excuse to drink and wake up in some one else's room. Never did much for me but hey- it's a PAID day off. That is worth celebrating.