What is it about New Years'?

New Years’ is not one of my favorite holidays. All it’s about is drinking and socializing, which I’m all about. What annoys me, however, is that all anyone asks from mid-December until the final day of the year is “what are you doing for New Years’?” This is as if there is no other important thing that could be happening in one’s life. Why does someone need to have plans? What if I didn’t have plans? Would I be a loser? What would that person say if I indeed had no plans?

The truth is that everyone has to make plans, but this causes stress. I’ve been in more fights about New Years’ plans than anything else in my life. You first make plans, but then someone else asks if you want to do something, but you say you already have plans – but then those plans fall through – and then the other person has new plans so now you’re stuck with no plans and have to come up with a last-minute idea that ends up being no fun at all.

Okay, maybe this doesn’t happen to everyone. Nonetheless, this stress is not worth the fun that so many people seem to have on New Years’. I actually find it depressing to look back on the year and see what has passed and what may never happen again. I always seem to notice that I’m getting older – that my childhood is gone forever – that I may never be in this certain situation ever again. To be honest, the whole holiday just makes me depressed.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but New Years’ sucks! Well, have a good one anyway!