Happy New (Day of the) Year

Ever notice how we spend the new year, every new year?

We are happy within the 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 60 seconds, 2 seconds leading up to the new year that that we express our happiness by lighting fireworks,

eating tons of food,

hugging, clapping, jumping, kissing

and essentially bingeing on ecstasy the minute the "New Year" starts - with the ecstasy slowly tapering off the second or two after.

We are happy five minutes before the start of the new DAY of the Year and the 3-5 seconds after. Not the entire year.

After the first 5 minutes of the new year, it's over.

The new year is over.

You: "What do you mean the new year's over? It's still the new year now!"

No.

This year is like every other year now. The new year's done, it has passed. We're waiting for the new year next year. That's the new year!

We don't really like the new year. We just want the idea of the new year. Those 3-5 minutes of the new day of the year coming, that's where the action is. The whole year is -- ehhh. It's a year. It will basically be any other year.  But the 60 seconds before and after  the new year, that's where our money is.

Our wishes, dreams, hopes are all condensed in the first few seconds on that new day of the year.

It's like most orgasms. If you've ever had one, it's where - for a second - you let yourself go, you suddenly have a glimpse of `heaven', everything will be alright, you feel no one and nothing can touch you and then, just like an orgasm, the good feeling ends as fast as it begins.

We don't value the year. What we value is the first minutes before and the seconds after the new day of the year starts. The rest of the year we essentially live like its any other.  

The seconds of the new day of the year ticks away until it becomes a minute, two minutes, five, 30 and then an hour and 24 hours. And then it's the second day of the new year. Then we wake up and live like it's any other day - until the next new year.

Happy New Day of the Year! After the first day of the year & after all that hugging, smiling & kissing,  I bet we'll all be back saying 'Fuck you' to each other again.