Can everyone mention how important New Years Eve and Day is to their culture.
To me in the US it used to be a party, all about the party, the day was just a day...
Today it is a time to reflect on the year, a burning bowl ceremony at church, writing down all the traits, emotions, attitudes that you want to let go of on a piece of paper and placing it into the flame...up in smoke, time to start over.
We also wirte letters to God, telling of how we intend to change, what we intend to accomplish, they are mailed back to us in June, so we can contemplate where we had intended to be and what we've accomplished to get us back on the stick.
Lastly it is a time to rebuild your daytimer, your goals, your address book, your calendar..physically tossing out the old and allowing room for the new.
So what is New Year to you...and your society.
I still raise a toast at midnight, and reminisce occasionally about back when it was about the party. We'd post the timezones and the countries, so every hour from 7 pm till.... we could toast somebody and the new year somewhere...
To me in the US it used to be a party, all about the party, the day was just a day...
Today it is a time to reflect on the year, a burning bowl ceremony at church, writing down all the traits, emotions, attitudes that you want to let go of on a piece of paper and placing it into the flame...up in smoke, time to start over.
We also wirte letters to God, telling of how we intend to change, what we intend to accomplish, they are mailed back to us in June, so we can contemplate where we had intended to be and what we've accomplished to get us back on the stick.
Lastly it is a time to rebuild your daytimer, your goals, your address book, your calendar..physically tossing out the old and allowing room for the new.
So what is New Year to you...and your society.
I still raise a toast at midnight, and reminisce occasionally about back when it was about the party. We'd post the timezones and the countries, so every hour from 7 pm till.... we could toast somebody and the new year somewhere...
