Year New Happy

What midnight on New Year's Day means is:
-Giant ball covered in lights dropping in New York.
-Resolutions people said last year and the year before that they will be saying again next year and the year after that.
-Promises to yourself and to other people that you won't keep.
-Worldwide Hangover Day on the morning of January 1st for each respective part of the world.
-Parties, galore.
-Almost certainly, more than one person will be killed because some idiot was driving drunk or shot a gun.
-And to coincide with the previous statement, emergency rooms will most likely be busy, yet businesses today will most likely not. Mostly, cause a lot of them are closed.
-Wishful thinking that because it's the start of a new year, you have a new chance to do things differently, and yeah sure, you do, but nothing else you used to do or had already done before has changed.
-There will be more wars, more violence, more killing.
-There will be more births, and more deaths.
-Another day has gone by and nothing's changed but the number to describe the years since we devised a way to keep track of what we call time.
-The world is still in the same state that it was the day, and incidentally, the year before.

Yet none of this really matters, because no matter how logical it is that New Year's day means nothing in and of itself, it's just the symbolism that comes with the day and the optimism it generates (albeit, it quickly fades) means more to everyone than any of this other stuff does. I know this because the entire world gets excited for this, and it reminds us that no matter what happens in the world, on this day, everyone can stop and be unified, and that we in the world really are one, interconnected with each other, spiritually, always. It's not like the entire world watches the clock in their respective time zones and when it strikes midnight, they all yell, "YAY!!! HAPPY AUGUST 17th!!!"


Happy New Year all.
Have fun, don't die.
I have work at 8:30 in the morning, how much does that blow?
Seriously.
Whatever.

And something for you all to think about...
New Zealand is the first to get the New Year and Samoa and Midway Island are the last to get the New Year, yet for some reason, people don't realize that the entire world is only on the same day for about an hour, with the time when I write this here on the West Coast of California, United States it is Jan 1st, 2:20 AM, the beginning of the New year, in Wellington, New Zealand, it is 10:20 PM, just near the end of New Year's day and in Samoa and Midway Island it is Dec, 31st, 11:20 PM, not even the new year yet. The entire world is on the the same day for one hour. At 1:00 PM in Samoa and Midway Island, it will be 12:00 AM, January 2nd in New Zealand.
Enjoy your New Year hour, world.

Happy 2009
peace and love