New Day

I am a firm believer in the arbitrariness of New Year’s celebrations but I will not say No to a public holiday.

There are so many clichés floating in the air around the Holiday Season that it’s difficult not to end up reflecting on sentimentality, cynicism or hipster indifference. For my part I’m always there for the food and or beverages but I have never been emotionally invested in it.

The way Christmas is celebrated annoys the dickens out of me but I play nice especially because family is involved. Everyone makes such big deal about traditions that I have never connected to. So I help with the Christmas tree and I help entertain comments from visitors to my family’s house (while I’m there) because … Christmas.

New Year’s on the other hand I’ve had a weird relationship with mainly because in my adulthood it has always been wrapped up with my boyfriend now husband. Our first New Year’s he rode a bicycle to meet me at my home at midnight and fell down in the process. Midnight was filled with kissing cuts and promising never to part. That was ten years ago and every Old Year’s Night thereafter we together.

At my family’s home music is played loudly and all the neighbours stand in each other yards drinking, liming, watching the fireworks, and celebrating surviving to the next year. Basically the same at my in laws. When on our own we spend it in bed, with cognac and snacks. I have fabulous friends who travel to see fireworks or to be somewhere new or spend the night at a party with fabulous people in fancy clothes. Maybe one year I will like people enough to do that.

I like New Year’s for that reason. I have never felt the social pressure of Christmas to celebrate in one way or another. I have options that include small groups and less noise. Also my affinity to New Year’s isn’t rooted in the changing of the date and the feelings related to its commemoration.  I actually celebrate me New Year’s on my Birthday.

That’s my new year.

I’ve learnt and profoundly experienced, every day is a new year. Resolutions can begin on the whatever of May or November or June.

So this New Year’s I’m celebrating tomorrow and my resolution is to celebrate tomorrow daily with personal fireworks and the enthusiasm of a sexy size 6 (with a 12 booty) 24 year old at an open bar on December 31.  

Happy New Day