One of the many nice things about going away for Christmas is that when you come back, it is as if it never happened. There is no tree, so no needles to litter the house for months and there are no decorations to take down. The small display of cards have already been removed, new addresses noted and the remnants consigned to the recycling bin. So it is all over again and it is New Year’s Eve.
Today is an excuse for many to drink themselves into stupors, and to pass on and collect infectious diseases of all descriptions. The pubs will be filled with persons in fancy dress costumes and to declare undying love to all those around them. Then a few will venture out into the cold and beat the living daylights out of each other as a way of demonstrating another sort of affection.
Many will, as sheep like tradition tells them, make New Year’s resolutions. How many will pledge to give up smoking, or alcohol, or excessive eating? How many will pledge to be nicer, kinder or more tolerant people? How many resolutions will last 24 hours? Things look different when you wake up with a headache.
Many of us will attend private parties, where we stand around with glasses that never seem to be empty, nibbling at food that we don’t really need, waiting for midnight to come so that we can sing a stupid Scottish song as the calendar flicks from 2008 to 2009. Everyone hopes that the next year will be so much better than the last. For some that will of course be the case, for many though it will be just the same. There will be ups and downs and everyone will get another year older. These so called special days are days of self delusion and fundamentally are no different to any other day. Why do we celebrate the end of a year or the beginning of another? Why not celebrate Sunday as a New Week day? I have no problem with celebration, but I’d prefer to celebrate something worthwhile. How about celebrating the beginning of spring, at least then the worst of the winter is behind us then. As you walk or totter home tonight, just think – the two worst months of the year are yet to come.
I will make no resolutions, but I do wish anyone who reads this, health and happiness for today and tomorrow and so on.
2 comments:
Thank you....
I hope your year is wonderful too....
And count me in for the springtime celebrations!
Be sure to wake me up in time!
:-) x
Thank you:) Happiness and health are the most important things...and we are almost in 2009..spring is approaching...and I think it is always with you..in your heart;)
Be happy:) X Lilly
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