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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magius del Cotto" data-source="post: 548274" data-attributes="member: 6554">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.</blockquote>