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What irks me about the holidays
jstephens9:
Great post Marge!!! You sure do speak the truth and you made me think. And yeah as far as the commercialization goes we can also take a look at the other holidays, they are too, but like you say it is not mandatory to participate or complain about any of them.
BelAir:
I don't like New Year's.
Okay. Well to explain maybe a little bit - I don't like New Year's Eve. I think it's fine to have a designated 'time of reflection' - things I accomplished this year, 10 dumbest celebrity mistakes of the year, etc... But, I don't like the go out and party and toot a horn that it's a new year.
I am not quite sure why I don't like it. Maybe because I feel weird that I don't want to "celebrate."
(Confession - I did enjoy all the fireworks round the world during Y2K New Year's...)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: BelAir on November 18, 2007, 11:25:16 pm --- But, I don't like the go out and party and toot a horn that it's a new year.
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I'm with you, BelAir. Years ago, I realized the enforced champagne-soaked merriness of a big partying New Year's EVE could only lead to disappointment, a hollow feeling, and a bad hangover. Yet I didn't want to ignore the holiday. So I started thinking about what would really make a NYE feel special and significant.
I realized I wanted to spend it quietly, in a special evening with close friends and/or family, preferably doing things I wouldn't do on most other nights of the year. So that's the kind of occasion I've sought ever since.
Several years in a row, I've gotten together with my brother, his girlfriend, their kids, and a few other close friends for a lobster dinner. That's been really fun. But it wouldn't have to be lobster. The point is, some kind of special food, lots of candles, music, people you love, and anything else that seems worthwhile.
Ellemeno:
I feel similarly about New Year's Eve. I have this belief that the way I ring in the New Year sets the tenor for the rest of the year.
This year, I will spending my last night ever in my mom's current house before she moves across the country a few days later.
I spent years mad at her and moved from the East Coast to the West Coast partly to get away from her. Now most of that has faded and healed for me, And I'm excited that she is moving to the West Coast partly to be closer to me. You never know. Sure am glad we have gotten to this point before the fateful postcard of mortality arrives.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on November 19, 2007, 12:34:01 am ---I spent years mad at her and moved from the East Coast to the West Coast partly to get away from her. Now most of that has faded and healed for me, And I'm excited that she is moving to the West Coast partly to be closer to me. You never know. Sure am glad we have gotten to this point before the fateful postcard of mortality arrives.
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Reading that made me feel happy this morning, Clarissa. :)
I don't like New Year's either. Wasn't so bad when I was pushin' 25, but now that I'm pushin' 50. ... :P
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