New Year's Eve: the Most Overrated Holiday of the Year

Happy New Year!

I might respond to that with a cheerfully sarcastic, "what's so happy about it?" But nonetheless, that's not really the point. The point is, this holiday is the most overblown, overrated thing of the year.

In all honesty, let's look at it. We celebrate watching the clock move one second from 11:59:59 to 12:00:00. Hooray!

This proclaimed "holiday" is just an excuse to go out party and get totally drunk. It seems to me kind of pointless, maybe that's because I don't drink. Who knows.

If you look beyond the sheer logistics of this holiday, it's the celebration of a passing year which, I guess I can go for. Granted, it doesn't really feel like a passing year. It's actually kind of a pain in the balls during January, the month in which probably 1 of 4 checks, homework assignments, and letters are written with the previous year's date on it because people haven't gotten used to writing 2006 etc.

It doesn't feel like a new year for me. (Or, it won't, at least... when the clock strikes 12.) Even when I go back to school... With finals after break, it's not really a new beginning, it's a half-assed attempt at re-learning what I learned in the months prior to being let out for break, and cramming this knowledge in my mind so I can perform well on a test that basically determines my grade for the semester. Kind of sucks.

Call me pessimistic if you want, but this is what happens when you stay home on New Year's Eve. You tend to realize how trivial it all is... maybe I am being a pessimistic jerk. I'll end on a positive note, however, maybe in college New Year's Eve will be more significant. More people to party with perhaps, and more of a significance in terms of finals being BEFORE break, and weeks after the holiday to finish work, as opposed to one day.