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Undertoad · 01-02-2003, 10:34 AM

It occurred to me yesterday that New Year's Day is really quite silly as a holiday. Most holidays have serious meaning to them, but NYD is really just celebrating your odometer reaching 100,000 miles.

Come to think of it, Y2K was like reaching 100,000; 2003 is more like reaching 110,000. Once you've celebrated the big turnover, the little one is even more silly. Given that the calendar is arbitrary, and that in retrospect it could have been set up much better, we're really celebrating nothing here.

It's nice to say that we get to throw away the last 365 days and start over, but a renewal holiday followed by 3 months of winter is wrong. New Year's should really happen around April. Perhaps we can celebrate the fiscal calendar.

In ranking years, for me, 2000 was enjoyable, 2001 was absolutely horrid and 2002 was merely poor. Your life's rankings?

01-02-2003, 10:34 AM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It occurred to me yesterday that New Year's Day is really quite silly as a holiday. Most holidays have serious meaning to them, but NYD is really just celebrating your odometer reaching 100,000 miles. Come to think of it, Y2K was like reaching 100,000; 2003 is more like reaching 110,000. Once you've celebrated the big turnover, the little one is even more silly. Given that the calendar is arbitrary, and that in retrospect it could have been set up much better, we're really celebrating nothing here. It's nice to say that we get to throw away the last 365 days and start over, but a renewal holiday followed by 3 months of winter is wrong. New Year's should really happen around April. Perhaps we can celebrate the fiscal calendar. In ranking years, for me, 2000 was enjoyable, 2001 was absolutely horrid and 2002 was merely poor. Your life's rankings?