Woo, it’s New Years Eve. Just got back from getting meat for tonights shin-dig at Dom’s, who knew you could get so many sausages at such a price? I wasn’t informed anyways.
While thinking about the fact it is New Year’s Eve, where everyone stays up to midnight to welcome the new year, and making foolhardy decisions of improving your life for the better, I stumbled on an important question:
Why?
It seems for some odd reason that just because we’ve added another number to calender that this somehow correlates to starting again, being fresh and new, when really the world is still as crummy as before and that dream of having the world join hands and sing “We Are The World” will have to wait till next year, or at least after the big “superpowers” get off there metophorical high-chairs and stop playing with those damn toy airplanes and soldiers and instead start messing with the blocks in the corners and actually kill this developed nations / third-world nations gap that is ever increasing.
Back on the topic, this realisation occurs on January 2nd, when people march back to their 9-5 job, and is probably the reason behind why most New Year’s Resolutions die on this day. It is interesting to look at how we not only celebrate New Year’s Day but also New Year’s Eve, as With Christmas Eve (if your that way inclined), Boxing Day, All Hallows Eve, Good Thursday (again if your that way inclined)…. why the obsession? I would like to also point out that why, in a country that has no state religion that Good Friday and Christmas Day, both Christian dates, are state holidays that everyone must observe. Isn’ the point of having no state religion is that everyone can observe their own beliefs. The Israelites down the street, trying to run a buisness, have to close on Christmas Day.
I’m going to learn how to make Ambrosia.
With Marshmallows?
You gotta remember though that Christmas has become really commercialized and the religious aspect of the holiday doesn’t really exist that much. Jesus(PBU)seems to have been replaced by Santa Claus. Although I may agree with you, I like to look at the positive side to it. Christmas is one day of the year where everyone is taken out of their busy lives to spend time with family and friends. Just the intention of being together and jolly no matter what faith you are (or not) can’t really be all that bad.