New Year’s Day
Oh New Year’s Day, you
precious, precious holiday! As the oldest
of all holidays, New Year’s Day is a celebration to mark the end of the
calendar year and the beginning of a new calendar year. Popular traditions employed on New Year’s
Day include uttering a New Year’s Resolution, a mission of self-improvement
that is ignored by February, and nursing the hangover of the New Year’s Eve
celebrations. For many, it’s an awkward
day of meeting a new person that they had met the night before, but that’s
another story altogether.
New Year’s Day falls into
the two-week period of many holidays.
Just six days after Christmas, New Year’s Day is a day of rest and
relaxation. A great time to do sweet
FA, New Year’s Day offers the opportunity to catch up with friends and
family. For kids, New Year’s Day marks
a turning point in their holidays, as they realize that going back to school is
approaching. However, New Year’s Day
never used to be like that. During the
time of ancient Babylon, New Years Day was a festive celebration that fell on
the first New Moon after the Vernal Equinox, the first day of spring.
As most people do not follow the astrological workings of the world to keep
time, there are no real significant celebrations for New Year’s Day. Parades celebrating New Year’s Day occur in
major urban centers and can be seen on television. Additionally, New Year’s Day is a great day for fans of college
football, as many Bowl Games are played on that day, which represents the end
of the college football season.
However, in tone New Year’s
Day is very similar to Thanksgiving.
Festive dinners can be made on this day and families often convene to
rest after the increasingly long lead-up and pressure of Christmas, the
ridiculously busy shopping day of Boxing Day, and the festive partying of New
Year’s Eve. A day where some network is
invariably showcasing a Law and Order marathon, New Year’s Day is just a
time to relax and catch up on errands.
Whether it’s sending out postcards thanking people for Christmas gifts
or just hanging out and watching an uplifting movie, New Year’s Day is a day to
just chill.
There is one lively occurrence
in New Year’s Day that usually takes part on New Year’s Eve. This is, of course, the famed countdown from
10 to 1 seconds to New Year’s Day.
Whether you’re at a private party or a nightclub, the counting down to
New Year’s Day is always a fun celebration and is a great time to grab a person
and kiss them. Invariably, after the
New Year’s Day countdown, the song Auld Lang Syne is played in
background. The song partially written
by Robert Burns in the eighteenth century is literally translated as ”old long
ago” or ”the good old days.” A time to
reflect on the events of the previous year and pledge changes to the upcoming
one, New Year’s Day is a fun holiday. A
day where most people aren’t working, New Year’s Day offers the opportunity to
reconnect with what is most important in life.
What that is always depends on the person celebrating this loved
holiday.
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