A toast! (to the not-so-new-feeling-year)

Truly, truly humans are odd.We celebrate an occasion on a specific day of the year every three-hundred and sixty five and a quarter days later, under the really funny excuse of “it only occurs once a year”.

 

Ever wondered why or how fast the “once a year” event thing arrives again, feeling like it happened just yesterday?

It felt really funny.I spent the so called “new year” in my miserable room, reminiscing what I did last new year.The fireworks went off outside, I heard its familiar pops and bangs with the funny irony of seeing people in Garena, rather than them going to join the party crowds as well.Maybe they’re just like me.Or they’re too lazy.Or they’re getting the new year’s love mood with someone special.You know what I mean.

I did the exact same thing last year, only this year Garena didn’t offer free goodies to “the first 100 people who click this countdown banner”, well they didn’t even have the banner on this year.Yet despite that there were gamers, lots of gamers, as we joined the merry countdown to the new year and that same thought that came to me every new year snuck into my boring mind.

 

“What are we celebrating that makes this time of the year  so special and new?Why celebrate this in the first place?why bother?”

After all, it comes and goes pretty much like an extended split second, with this split second getting faster and faster by the day. Did the time continuum broke? no.Did humans manage to pollute the very essence of time with their destructive nature? I doubt so.So what is it that makes time creep by quicker and quicker? We will never know, and like all old people say “Just Like That ..” our children gets into college, I retire , etc etc etc.

We experience this so called “newness” and talk of resolutions, things to go through but as the years go by I feel that the quality of life itself has gotten bitter and worse.Year after year, CNN, Bloomberg and so on broadcasts the economic wrap and all, together with the hopes and wishes of which so ever economic forecaster, and his forecast and his comments etc etc.Then came the new year, and everything goes the opposite, Earth day comes, people wow and woo about saving the earth then from July to the next Earth day we continue to terrorize the world (especially on New year’s eve).I find it the biggest LoL of this generation.You should skip these two paragraphs IMHO.

But seriously every passing year while people brag and broaden their “newness” I sit alone and ponder about this whole new year experience.The thing is, I never felt a thing every new year, what more to have the mood to celebrate it.

I recalled my last new year’s celebration where I sat and watched as people ran around merrily, spraying party sprays or fake snow on each other along with my family, waiting for the fireworks display.There was pretty much nothing to see after 10, every shop closed accept McDonalds.After the “amazing” 10 minutes which gave me a pain in the neck, we rushed back to the car to avoid the jam, only sit in the car as it couldn’t start.I saw a killer pissed immature side of my dad, who cursed and swore at everything, and shoved my opinion of taking a cab home.I told him we could settle it tomorrow, which we do, 3 hours of waiting and wandering around the dismantled site of the street party.

So I sat on that same chair, in the same room that kept me and sort of “cuddled” on me for the last 7 years, posting my every thought after a good night’s game of Dota.With a friend or clan mate of mine leaving for NS saturday, I really wondered how the new year would kick off, what would happen and how would I trudge through it? SPM’s blocking my lonely path, along with duties and responsibilities.

Can i neglect them?

 

The end is beginning. Seriously.How would we handle it?