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Obligatory

No one is entirely faithless, it seems. One can renounce God, give up on the government, can even say that science could truly be a total crock of shit, and yet still believe that there is some magical gate we walk through in that split-second between 11:59pm, December 31 and 12:00am, January 1 that means that everything that has happened in the past 52 weeks is done with, and now we all have a fresh start that could possibly be a great improvement.

According to the Atheists, we attached God as a name to the unknown: an explanation as to where we came from, what happens when we die, and a way to shrug off the horrible atrocities of an otherwise chaotic existance by deeming it under "His Plan." New Year's Eve/Day is just that: it's a street sign on the road of life. If you get used to the travelling (or, more often in our case, just want to wander) it's relatively useless unless you pay attention to it. Another road could easily be named Main St, and the old Main St. be re-named Rockford Ave. Have any of the buildings, landmarks, or surrounding people been utterly changed by this transformation? Other than the fact that they have to learn the new names when writing out their address, probably not (though I will tell you I have a bitch of a time remembering the year has changed when writing out dates).

I totally understand the need for assigning measurements of time. Without seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years memory and history would become a lot more difficult to organize. And it is true that your life is going to change this year, but the year could begin in June and that wouldn't change this fact. We're basically starting a new memory block, and hoping that "next year" will be better is no more significant than hoping tomorrow is a lot easier to deal with than today.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, I just wonder why we do it. Or, perhaps, why we don't do it more often. People make New Year's Resolutions: "This year I'm going to stop smoking," "This year I'm going to lose weight," "This year I will live out my dream of being the bearded lady," and I wonder why we need this landmark to make this change. I suppose we all need deadlines. It's true that having something due at a certain time seems to push us all into action, and I guess that's what NYE is, a deadline. If there's anything you want changed in your life, plan it now and have it done by next year, or you're really going to be kicking yourself.

I admit that I tend not to live by such deadlines. Granted, this sometimes causes me to be lazy and forgetful, but the truly important stuff always happens. If you want to stop smoking, lose weight, join the circus, if you truly want that, you will recieve it. I have more faith in you than the passage of time ever will.

So, New Year's Eve is, for me, like Christmas. I don't really believe in the meaning/story, but I love the spirit. I love how everyone goes into one last binge and purge, and everyone just celebrates the fact that they and the ones around them are still alive. So I will celebrate with the masses, in this case at the shindig happening at Das Spooky Haus, probably, once I finally leave work, and I'll wish a Happy New Year to you all. Just like religion, even if it doesn't mean that much to me doesn't mean I can't respect how much it means to you. In fact, I respect you more for having the faith I don't.

This obligatory, rambling, stream-of-conciousness New Year's Eve post has come to an end. Thank you for reading.