I don't get the point of new years celebrations

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Making it successfully through the year alive as the Earth successfully orbits full circle around the sun is a definite cause for celebration imo. Much more so than practically any other holiday we've invented.

I question the general way in which most celebrate it who go out but it is what it is.

 

new year varies from culture to culture..

 

fools everywhere
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/a_new_year_rolls_in.html

 

it one the only times a year you can cut a snowman down with an assault rifle and the neighbors will just think youre scaring away the spirits..

 

There are three new years celebrated here. Werstern, Chinese, and Cambodian. And the locals celebrate all of them with vigor.

What's the point of being with friends, drinking, enjoying yourself, making the night sky light up beautifully, promising yourself that things can always change for the better, and kissing under a firework show?

I suppose theres only value in it if you like some of those things.

 

Think about it as celebrating the one time of the year you get full value out of the new calendar you might purchase, no wasted months.

 

mine is a computer ,, no wasted trees.. :toetap05:, and I can scroll back and forth on the computer like a time machine. :afro:

 

you just answered your own question.

 

You can do those things almost any night of the year.

 

I'm kind of over it I must say.

Prefer just a normal Sat night going out carrying on. NYE everyone gets nostalgic and soppy and shit.

Plus as you get older, besides your birthday NYE is just another reminder you're one year closer to the grave

 

something i have learned this new years. even if you may not enjoy the people around you theres always traits you can find in them that you like.
when thinking like that its a lot easier to connect with people and have a lot more fun..

OP is in the wrong mindset imo, he needs to cheer up and get more social interaction!! meeting new people is the greatest thing in the world!!
especially if you can make connections with them.
and the best time to meet new people is when the majority of the population is putting out some good energy with holiday cheer.

Holidays are important because everyone comes together!!! everyone tunes in to similar frequencys
jees i think you need to read/watch charles dicken's a christmas carol again..

 

And you can dress up like santa and go caroling in April.

Not much of a sense of community there though.

 

I look at the New Year Holiday as a birthday celebration for time. It's celebrating getting through another Gregorian calendar, which I really think is something to celebrate. It's like a second birthday for everyone to celebrate together. It's a good holiday.

 

If it is a sense of community you like, then it's all good.

 

What I like about New Year's is that it's a not guilt-trippy thing, about gift-giving and "family."

This New Year's Eve I spent alone in front of a computer. Was I sad? No! I was happy. Because it's arbitrary, I can choose not to participate.

I can choose to go for a walk on my own. I can have sex. That's certainly a plus over Christmas; days when people have no (or less) sex bother me.

 

Its a great time for me to invite all the friends to the homestead without all my neighbors wondering what the hippies are up to and why that guy allways has guest at his house. Besides that I've allways been partial to "lets have a great big party and we'll call it planet earth". The last few years we've called it the end of the world party as we are getting quite a bit older and you never know when the party your at might be your last. The cool thing is I don't have to worry about the liquor and beer anymore as barely any of us drink although thats not to say we're not totally inebriated by breakfast.

 

We didn't drink much at all on New Year's.. not sure why..

It doesn't mean much to me either; but my anniversary does, and that happens to be on the same day - so that works out nicely, I suppose.

 

I don't care what the point is... I had a great time dancing and drinking at the brewery and then toasting champagne with my loved ones.

 

it was 5 days ago.. Get over it..