So it is now time for the biggest party of the year in New York. The police have already started putting up barriers in Times Square, which makes it even harder to navigate than usual.
I've always been sort of non-plussed by the hubbub surrounding New Years' and I think I finally figured out why. Besides the fact that all the fuss is made over a second and it's over as quickly as it began...New Years' is about a new beginning and taking stock of what you want to do differently in the new year. Or at least, theorectially it is. It may actually be about drinking as much as possible, spending $50 on a cover fee at a bar that usually doesn't have one and finding someone to kiss when the clock strkes 12. I digress. Anyway. I feel like I've already taken stock and done the soul searching that New Years' resolutions are supposed to prompt back in October when it was Rosh Hashannah. I always felt like Rosh Hashannah was supposed to make you a better person and a better Jew, when New Years'...just doesn't. I know not everyone celebrates Rosh Hashannah(duh) but if New Years' was more about a new beginning than drinking and spending money, I could get more behind it.
There's like insane pressure to do something, anything, to make the night special. The thing that I value most about New Years' is getting together with my friends and spending time with them, becuase since we left SU, we don't get to do that very often. The ideal New Years' for me would be to have Seth, Nina, Amy, Laura, Dan, Alise, Matt, Jodie and Jon in the same room for the evening. That's it.
Anyway, Happy New Year :o)
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