New year

So it's the new year soon and people keep on asking me what I'm doing to celebrate.

I'm doing fuck all.

Not because I'm lazy or unsociable (well not completely) but because I've never seen the point in it.

Arbitrarily celebrating the change from one date to the next has never held any allure for me.

-Party!
-What's the occasion?!
-It's wednesday!

People say it's to celebrate surviving one more year, but we already have birthdays for that. If they mean us as in humanity then they should take another look, humanity isn't two thousand or so years old, it's millions if you believe evolution, so it's pretty damn obvious that we aren't going anywhere.

Its just one step up from thinking "i didn't die today" every time you go to sleep, we shouldn't even dwell on it, surviving is one of the only things you can do with zero effort so to celebrate it is to celebrate mediocrity, and another pointless endeavour we cling to.

So what else is there? A chance to drink and be rowdy? It all seems so immature and anodyne to celebrate the most meager things (who gives a fuck about saint patrick's day? You don't even know who he was do you?) and it seems like people are only interested in the drinking part, not the thing theyre supposedly celebrating so we might as well throw it out completely in favour of calling it "drinking, shouting night".

Someone said to me it's a chance for new beginnings, but who has ever stuck to their new year's resolution? Do you lie awake at night kicking yourself because you promised you'd eat less chocolate at the end of the last year? No, there's nobody keeping score or making sure you stay true to your promise, its just another reason to feel guilty about doing what you want with your life, as is your right. And why choose this time to male a change? If you're unhappy about something, change it today, don't wait to change your smoking habits or use of foul language, use some self control and stop doing those things. And go to the gym while you're at it.

Finally, someone said it is a chance to hope the next year will be better than the last. Despite the fact this means you'll always see the events of the last year in a negative light, this means you're just wishing for good things to happen to you.

That's called religion, so go fuck yourself.

Happy holidays!