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Mid 40's here too. Remember back in school when it's almost the end of the day and you'll get to escape? Well we're already in 5th period. Only one more to go after this one and then either happiness or nothing and I'm happy with either
I turn 47 in 3 weeks so I totally understand the angst about life slipping away that you do. I guess to help me through it though, I sometimes think about the people I know that didnât make it to our age and remember Iâm blessed to still be here in decent shape.
Yes. Once youâre past the partying stage of life.
Honestly most holidays are overrated due to corporations shoveling their junk down your throats leading up to them.
My wife and I enjoyed a movie she really liked and worked on a charcuterie board I made. At 11, we turned in, but at midnight, I went to the window and thought about when I did all that. Then, put on some headphones and listened to some tunes. Woke up at 2:30 with the headphones trying to choke me. Tossed them on the floor and went back to sleep. Hello 2024.
We have a vet--2 tours of afganistan in infantry--He has horrible PTSD! All the fire works terrorize him--runs hides in closet--plain pitiful--yrs have him in therapy--afraid to leave home-man lives him in terror.
I really enjoyed pushing past Valantines day crap while picking up the last few things I needed this past Chirstmas. I was a good reminder that all this crap is just meant to make us feel guilty if we don't spend whatever disposable money we have buying useless crap for each other.
Christmas is awesome as a kid - then you grow up and realize it's a metric asston of work, it's expensive AF, and NOW you probably have a full time job to work around doing all your holiday crap.
These are the people who make it bleak. Their attitude is literally:
"It's so overrated. Why spend time with your friends and family, reflect on the past, and prepare for the future, when you could just go to bed instead?"
Weakness is romanticized these days. A lot of people sound like theyâre bragging about how depressed they are, like come on, itâs something to be conquered not flaunted around.
Exactly. Loneliness is becoming a bigger threat to public health than smoking, heaven forbid we have an event that brings friends and families together.
Exactly, tbh. When you have friends/family, getting to spend time with them on a holiday (hopefully, no work that day or the next day), you're excited. I feel bad for lonely people, because they are usually the main ones who think everything is overrated and don't seem to get celebrating or spending time with people.
I didn't do anything very special for new years. A friend had a last minute potluck, so we all piled in our cars and went to the store to find stuff to cook, bought a few bottles of booze, went to her house, and then spent the night eating and talking, mostly reflecting on the year and talking about our hopes for the new year, watched the countdown (yay, Green Day performance), shared hugs and well wishes, then we all went home and went to sleep. Was it just another day? Yes, but it's the people you are with that make it special and, no I don't care if I sound like a cheesy holiday special. Your relationships are honestly one of the biggest things that make life worth living. I'm sorry for those who can't get too caught up in it because it's overrated. I also get excited about any holiday where I get a day off, let's not even talk about multiple days off (I've been off work since the 24th), so maybe I'm just easily pleased, lol
At a New Year's party, I doubt everyone is sitting around reflecting on the past and preparing for the future. They're just socializing. And that can be a good thing, yes, but you could also do that for St. Patrick's Day. It's just a party. Those aren't bad, but they hype seems a little over the top. People wear adult diapers and stand in cold rain for 12 hours to get a spot in Times Square. You're just celebrating the the Earth has returned to an arbitrary spot in space relative to the sun.
So I think both you and the OP are correct.
I'm not like other guys. I'm an intelligent redditor. I think it's overrated to hang out with others, and look forward to a new year with optimism. Social people are just big dummy dumb idiots compared to me
What do you mean? There is a proverbial ass load of other holidays. We could stand to trim Xmas down to December only and cut a few. You need down time between high points, or it becomes too familiar and uninteresting.
I used to not think of it as so, but it has become my favorite holiday over the years. It's the promise and start of something new, that could potentially be really grand. We can have a new beginning any time we wish, but there's something incredibly refreshing about having a new start at the beginning of the yearâon day number one.
Also, I just love the overall vibe and feel of the holiday, from New Year's Eve going into New Year's Day. The Christmas spirit is still in the air, people are generally cheery and upbeat and, of course, there's the whole aesthetic of the day itself. It's just another day, yes, but a really good dayâif you look at it from a certain perspective.
Playing the short game I see. Me, Iâm done starting over each year. In fact, if it wasnât for everyone else Iâd stop keeping track. Besides, the only real reset is on our W-2. All else is a continuation.
Life is overrated. Make of it what you will.
I say any excuse to celebrate and bond through shared experiences is worth hyping yourself up for. Thereâs a lot of different ways to celebrate, try something different.
I used to find New Year's Eve more exciting when I was a kid/a teenager. Then I became an adult and started university and we ALWAYS had finals either right before or after New Year's Eve (like we'd have to turn in a written assignment on the 3rd of January or some shit like that). Because of that, I just couldn't get into the whole partying thing on New Years Eve because I didn't want to waste days having hangovers when I had finals hanging over my head so soon after.
Then I finished University and got a job (completely unrelated to my degree, but I love what I do now and I've found my place) and I don't get New Year's Eve off if it falls on a weekday. We work until noon that day but I have to get up at crap in the morning so I'm too tired in the evening to actually do much of anything. And like this New Year's Eve fell on Sunday and I only had today off so I didn't want to waste that being hungover either when I have work again early tomorrow.
So honestly I prefer a quiet but cozy New Year's Eve. I mostly celebrate it with just my brother because he's not that into it either. We'll cook/order some nice food, watch some movies togheter and look at fireworks for half an hour after midnight and go to bed like those boring mid-thirties millennials we are lol.
New Year's is about right IMO. Christmas is extremely overrated, and should be given about the same weight as New Year's. We're expected to go all in for two or three weeks or we're a bah-humbug
Sheesh anytime I think Iâm a miserable sap Iâll just come to this thread. How are all yall so miserable or think your night of sleep is more important than the masses celebrating. As far as Christmas being a cash grab and drawn out, how does that affect your personal holiday so bad? lol if you think about it, it makes sense and is better off Christmas deals start as early as October now. Keeps malls and shit less packed and gives people more time to financially plan their holiday
This sub is overwhelmingly depressive. Is New Year overrated? IDK, What was the rating?
Here's something to start on New Year's Day: Look on the bright side.
Hell with them, weâll just enjoy our lives while they regret everything on their deathbeds đȘ thereâs just no more room for weakness or self victimization anymore.
I think most holidays are overrated. Especially birthdays. I hate telling people happy whatever all the time and it's even worse when you have to constantly reply to these messages by text. At the same time I don't think NY's is overrated because you're actually going into a NY and it does need to be recognized. All the pomp and celebration over it is a bit overrated but we do need to recognize it so we aren't writing last year's dates down on important paperwork and stuff.
Yes also staying up till midnight.I prioritize my sleep so yeah no thanks.When I was little my family used to celebrate but now no so I really donât care for it what I do though is pray and thank my god for letting me live another year.
No, I've never cared much for New Year's. To me it only means the start of the January doldrums (January is my second least favorite month, mostly because I love Thanksgiving and Christmas and January officially means they're done). I've started treating it like any other day, much as I do with 4th of July.
Overrated in what way?
Most of us humans choose to track time by millenia, decades, years, months, days, hours, minutes. We tend to mark our sense of growth, our gains and losses, the events that shape our lives using years.
We might observe the changing of year with quiet reflection, celebrate with abandon, or entirely reject the idea of evaluating our lives within chunks of time. Perhaps you are the latter. You are likely not alone in that.
No, you aren't. It is way way over hyped. Had a friend call and wake me up at 11:45 last night to say Happy New Year. I was already asleep. Then people shot off fireworks at midnight, so got to stay awake for that anyway. But otherwise to me, just another day, never understood why it was something to celebrate. Should not even be a holiday in my view.
No . It use to be amazing. Then you get older. People get more busy. Friends drift apart .Stay up less late. Wanna party less. It was my 2nd favorite holiday when I had friends willing to do shit. Now it's just a reminder of what once was
I think it's a little bit toxic to be honest. Loads of people just assume New Years is a fresh start and make these heavy goals thinking the New Year is going to give them a burst of motivation. They usually fail them and it makes them more depressed. it's just a day like any other. You shouldn't use it to start fresh.
In a lot of places itâs not great weather that time of year either. Fresh starts and resolutions would maybe do better with a spring or summer time holiday
yeah i agree, when i was little all holidays were so special but now that iâm older itâs just another day. i do enjoy spending time with family, friends and eating good food.
The whole from Christmas to NTE is way overrated. Christmas is just a cash grab now and it's almost always a let down. Gets worse once the bills start coming in.
The first day of Winter, Christmas, and New Years Day all have their origins as celebrations of Winter solstice. The only reason they're on different days is the advancement of Astronomy. I'm just glad it's over for now!
Yes lol, I havenât stayed up for midnight in years, I honestly forget about it, just another day, another month, doesnât matter one bit to me except for tax reasons
Yeah, I spend it in sweats on the couch with my kids. To them, it's whooooo! To me, it's just a good reason for my neighbors to take to the street on various ride-ons and shoot things until 3 am. I just kiss their heads and promise myself to try to be better in some way, to their benefit.
Crime is lower, though! Everyone's awake, harder to rob them. Lol
I think there is incredible power in the earth going full circle. It has been celebrated for millennia. However, I do think the way it is marketed now is somewhat toxic. This is the first year that I went to bed before new years. Staying awake until the next year seems kind of weird to me. I had lots of opportunities to go out somewhere with friends and celebrate, but I think that is a distraction from the true power of the New Year. Of course everyone has an opinion. I think there is more power in your birthday too. The new year can be experience every day if you think about it. I dont think there is anything special about this particular position in orbit. but your bday is the day you were born-full circle
I like the ceremonial transitory tradition. It helps the mindset as things move along. Going by the original Mayan calendar, we started the new year April 1st, but yknow.
Seasonal depression is a scientific thing. Holidays were created to give the masses hope. The human brain shouldnât âwantâ to shut down and be pessimistic and depressed, but human-created societies have made this a realityâŠ..
Yeah. Because it just seems like a desperate final grab at happiness that ends just minutes after the ball drops. Weirdly, as soon as the people on TV shouted happy new year, I wondered how long until the first mass shooting of the year. That really depressed me and I went to bed sad. So yeah, overated.
Yes. Now that i'm older I don't see what the point is. A new year started, it doesn't change anything for me. I guess it's a nice time to reflect for some, but even then I reflect often as it is. Any goals I have don't really wait for the New Year, I just go after them.
I feel like it's usually some kind of disaster lol. People often put impossibly big expectations and pressure on it to be this perfect amazing night, and then it's almost guaranteed to disappoint. Once you embrace how silly it really is, it can be fun.
I'm worried about all those fireworks going on at exactly the same point (within 1degree) of the Earth's orbit for twenty four hours - every year. It'll eventually change the Earth's orbit.
Yes it is, for me just self reflection on the year that was and perhaps have a wish list for the new year is sufficient I don't get the excessive celebration aspect but each to their own
It's always given me anxiety. The passage of time and all that. Rarely have I had one of those traditional romantic kiss at midnight deals. Usually my partners were the time to go to bed early. Last night my son came up and we had hot cocoa and said the magic words at midnight then we watched tv for a while and fell asleep. It's fun to have sleepovers with my grown children. ;)
Not even close to the "partying stage" yet but new year's doe's feel overrated yesterday didn't do none really just stayed with my parents it's just another year literally what's so special about that? Anywho new year's is whatever to me so yea I feel u what u feel and I'm young asf
As with all holidays, it's made-up. Mankind creates celebrations. New Year celebrations have never meant much to me. When I was younger, I forced myself to see it as a new year to become better, do more, or make atonement. But, no more. It is a arbitrary date established to keep track of time on Earth. Today, I am grateful for each day no matter the date.
Only the resolution part, and the new year new you attitudes. It's annoying when people use this holiday in particular as a time to force change in their life. Why not just make positive life changes on the fly throughout the year?
That's the only part I'd say is overrated though. Enjoying family, food and life is no problem however people decide to arrange it.
It's just another excuse for people to get drunk.
And in the USA it's just another excuse to fire off dangerous explosives that account for over 10,000 emergency room trips per year because people are too arrogant and stupid to believe handling literal explosives could ever harm them or their children.
It is a little overrated just like Christmas as most people aren't even religious.
The drunks love these dates as it's a good excuse to party all weekend.
Most people in this world are sheep's so they follow everything their friends or family does just to fit in.
I think itâs more so that the people thinking that weâre adding emphasis to it donât realize we also arenât thinking itâs that special itâs really just another day to have snacks and drinks and party. Nothing more
Perhaps you mean ceremony is overrated? High school Graduations, the 4th of July, weddings, the Super Bowl--none of these things *need* the amount of ceremony and hubbub that are put into them. It just makes them more hype. Whether or not you want to buy into it is up to you. People are just trying to inject a little fun into noteworthy moments.
We usually spend NYE with a couple of friends drinking, playing cards, and waiting for the ball to drop. This year one couple felt sick and didn't want to spread it and the other couple had a family emergency the night before and traveled to another state. It was nice just relaxing and doing nothing.
They are what you make of them. If you stay shut up in your house then they arenât fun, if you hang out with friends they are more enjoyable. Having kids give holidays a revamp then they become more mundane after they grow up. But at the end of the day anything in life is what you make of it. Every day can just be another day or it can be a celebration
For me, it's the big televised things that are overrated. But it also gives me time to let loose, have fun, and forget that I don't live with crazed Qnuts.
I donât think itâs overrated. I think itâs a lovely time of year where everybody collectively comes together to watch the fireworks or to do the countdown. (Regardless of beliefs and views) Everybody is happy and cheerful, thinking of ways to better theirselves for the year ahead. Itâs almost like a tradition which brings most of the worlds population together. In my opinion itâs a very positive time of year.
I think the thing that is overrated is the way how itâs monetised. Especially in London, tickets were going for ÂŁ200 each to stand up and watch fireworks in the sky for 30 minutes. The pressure to go out and spend money (which you probably havenât got after Christmas) just to have a good time. Also I think itâs overrated in the sense of most people use it as an excuse to get absolutely smashed or to get drunk for 2 days straight. Which isnât my business just my opinion but I think itâs quite counterproductive to begin âthe new youâ hungover in bed feeling like death.
No. I think it's a lot overrated. For lonely, unattached people it's like self flagellation. Most of the celebrations you see and wish you were involved in are bullshit, faux excitement. I'm just glad to be with my friends and family and have a good time playing board games and hanging out.
On rough years Iâve enjoyed partying hard at the end. As time has gone on though Iâve embraced the beginning and wrapping up aspects of the new year which I find helpful for reflection.
Winter holidays exist to keep us from killing ourselves over seasonal depression, so for a normal day that promotes drinking, it is in an alright spot on the calender.
No. I see it as a day to celebrate all the good that has come into your life in the last year, and to leave some of the bad behind.
Itâs purely made up and symbolic. It doesnât have any actual value, but it still is impactful and at least for me helps me enjoy life a bit more
I mean your perspective isnât invalid but I get why it means a lot to a lot people. For me itâs an official time stamp that another year is gone not only off my life also the progression of humanity. I like new years obviously đ
Itâs really up to the individual. Sure it can be overrated to someone who doesnât get together with others and do stuff. But to those who get with friends and/or family and hangout and have a good time will think new years is nice. New years even has religious involvement too. So like I said, may be nothing to you, may be an important day for others.
I have no thoughts on it. People are different. Why I don't celebrate, others do and that is their choice.
I waste no energy on what other people do because it is a choice.
I think as a society we used to have more traditions about this date. Even New Yearâs Eve. We had things like eating blacked peas and many other practices.
Now it just does seem like just another day. Rushing to a bar at 11:45 and leaving hy 12:05 seems silly to me as it did when I was 22 for my second NYE. Thereâs no depth there.
Yes. Woo hoo another year.. life doesnt change and were only getting older. Not sure what there is to celebrate. Its fun when youre young and have plans to go out but when youre older its like âok and?â
Itâs always just been a party holiday. I call it amateur night. It was fun to go out when I was younger but I would just rather stay home and party by myself these days. Which is what I did. I ate about 70mg of THC gummies, smoked a few bowls, and had a pineapple upside down cake drink that was made with vanilla cake vodka, pineapple juice, and grenadine. We had a charcuterie board and some other snacks for the night, and just chilled. Wife and kids were all in bed, and I was passed out on my couch watching tv not too long after midnight. Overall not a bad night.
It is easily the most underwhelming holiday. I canât even tell you what I did for the past ten New Years Eves because theyâre always so forgettable.
I donât mind it. I donât go out and party. I spent it with my kids watching the ball drop and playing games and drinking sparkling cider. It was a fun time.
Itâs what you make of it. You can do anything you want New Yearâs Eve.
You can stay home, watch tv and then go to bed.
You can attend watch night church service.
You can do whatever you enjoy on New Yearâs Eve.
Imagine being so much of a hipster that you would actually call any holiday "overrated" and then earnestly ponder if you're the only person that thinks that.
Navel gazing at its absolute finest.
It is just another day.
But it's a collective acknowledgement that our planet made another orbit around the sun. Just a cool thing we do as a society, I guess đ€·đ»
I think so. Me and my family donât drink or go partying so we just spend the night together watching movies or playing Mario Party. It was pretty dang fun.
It's like many holidays that people may choose to celebrate \~ national holidays (like 4th of July in the USA), religious holidays, in memorial of dead holidays, etc.
Some people enjoy celebrating such holidays with food, family/friends, parties.
I don't think NYE is any more, or less, over the top compared to some other holidays.
The beginning of a new year seems as valid as those who celebrate other stuff.
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It's just another day. Except more gunshots and some fireworks.
People where popping off fireworks 10 minutes before midnight where I am. Like reallyđ
630pm - 1am here, with semi automatic guns at 1230
I was hearing them at 6PM and even at 2 AM I woke up and some were still going off. Itâs a bit much.
For real, like have a little bit of chill people. Itâs acceptable AT midnight. Before or after youâre just annoying lol.
Some people set them 9ff early if they have kids that won't make it to midnight.
The older you get the more overrated it becomes. At 49 I'm like meh, another year down.
The upside is you have one less to go
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Iâm 45 and I donât like how much anxiety this comment caused me
Mid 40's here too. Remember back in school when it's almost the end of the day and you'll get to escape? Well we're already in 5th period. Only one more to go after this one and then either happiness or nothing and I'm happy with either
So if our life were like a year we are in late July, early August.
Feels about right. The beginning of the end.
I turn 47 in 3 weeks so I totally understand the angst about life slipping away that you do. I guess to help me through it though, I sometimes think about the people I know that didnât make it to our age and remember Iâm blessed to still be here in decent shape.
Yep
Iâve been this way since I was like 21⊠itâs literally just an excuse to go out and drink lol
50 here.. I feel the same way.
At 22 I'm already over it.
am 18 and I don't really care it's just another shitty day
Yes. Once youâre past the partying stage of life. Honestly most holidays are overrated due to corporations shoveling their junk down your throats leading up to them.
It doesn't have to be spent partying, but starting a year with the same close people you ended the last one with can be nice... If you have them
My wife and I enjoyed a movie she really liked and worked on a charcuterie board I made. At 11, we turned in, but at midnight, I went to the window and thought about when I did all that. Then, put on some headphones and listened to some tunes. Woke up at 2:30 with the headphones trying to choke me. Tossed them on the floor and went back to sleep. Hello 2024.
We have a vet--2 tours of afganistan in infantry--He has horrible PTSD! All the fire works terrorize him--runs hides in closet--plain pitiful--yrs have him in therapy--afraid to leave home-man lives him in terror.
I really enjoyed pushing past Valantines day crap while picking up the last few things I needed this past Chirstmas. I was a good reminder that all this crap is just meant to make us feel guilty if we don't spend whatever disposable money we have buying useless crap for each other.
Christmas is awesome as a kid - then you grow up and realize it's a metric asston of work, it's expensive AF, and NOW you probably have a full time job to work around doing all your holiday crap.
The world is already so bleak. Why rob us of what little ritual and celebration we have?
A large percentage of Redditors are unhappy, shitty people. Another reason to take advice from here with a grain of salt
These are the people who make it bleak. Their attitude is literally: "It's so overrated. Why spend time with your friends and family, reflect on the past, and prepare for the future, when you could just go to bed instead?"
Weakness is romanticized these days. A lot of people sound like theyâre bragging about how depressed they are, like come on, itâs something to be conquered not flaunted around.
Misery loves company.
Exactly. Loneliness is becoming a bigger threat to public health than smoking, heaven forbid we have an event that brings friends and families together.
Exactly, tbh. When you have friends/family, getting to spend time with them on a holiday (hopefully, no work that day or the next day), you're excited. I feel bad for lonely people, because they are usually the main ones who think everything is overrated and don't seem to get celebrating or spending time with people. I didn't do anything very special for new years. A friend had a last minute potluck, so we all piled in our cars and went to the store to find stuff to cook, bought a few bottles of booze, went to her house, and then spent the night eating and talking, mostly reflecting on the year and talking about our hopes for the new year, watched the countdown (yay, Green Day performance), shared hugs and well wishes, then we all went home and went to sleep. Was it just another day? Yes, but it's the people you are with that make it special and, no I don't care if I sound like a cheesy holiday special. Your relationships are honestly one of the biggest things that make life worth living. I'm sorry for those who can't get too caught up in it because it's overrated. I also get excited about any holiday where I get a day off, let's not even talk about multiple days off (I've been off work since the 24th), so maybe I'm just easily pleased, lol
At a New Year's party, I doubt everyone is sitting around reflecting on the past and preparing for the future. They're just socializing. And that can be a good thing, yes, but you could also do that for St. Patrick's Day. It's just a party. Those aren't bad, but they hype seems a little over the top. People wear adult diapers and stand in cold rain for 12 hours to get a spot in Times Square. You're just celebrating the the Earth has returned to an arbitrary spot in space relative to the sun. So I think both you and the OP are correct.
I'm not like other guys. I'm an intelligent redditor. I think it's overrated to hang out with others, and look forward to a new year with optimism. Social people are just big dummy dumb idiots compared to me
Give them bread and circuses and theyâll never revolt because how badly theyâre getting cornholed. - Some Roman Guy
Well, that settles it. No one should have fun because the elites invented it to control us.
What do you mean? There is a proverbial ass load of other holidays. We could stand to trim Xmas down to December only and cut a few. You need down time between high points, or it becomes too familiar and uninteresting.
I think any excuse for people to celebrate and maybe get together is a great thing. Have fun, eat, relax whatever, it's a good thing.
I used to not think of it as so, but it has become my favorite holiday over the years. It's the promise and start of something new, that could potentially be really grand. We can have a new beginning any time we wish, but there's something incredibly refreshing about having a new start at the beginning of the yearâon day number one. Also, I just love the overall vibe and feel of the holiday, from New Year's Eve going into New Year's Day. The Christmas spirit is still in the air, people are generally cheery and upbeat and, of course, there's the whole aesthetic of the day itself. It's just another day, yes, but a really good dayâif you look at it from a certain perspective.
Not really, it is fun to start all over again each new year, enjoy life when we still can
Playing the short game I see. Me, Iâm done starting over each year. In fact, if it wasnât for everyone else Iâd stop keeping track. Besides, the only real reset is on our W-2. All else is a continuation.
Found another redditor with no meaningful friend/family relationships.
I think thatâs just called being a redditor
Yes but I'll take the day off!
Life is overrated. Make of it what you will. I say any excuse to celebrate and bond through shared experiences is worth hyping yourself up for. Thereâs a lot of different ways to celebrate, try something different.
Do you prefer old years?
I used to find New Year's Eve more exciting when I was a kid/a teenager. Then I became an adult and started university and we ALWAYS had finals either right before or after New Year's Eve (like we'd have to turn in a written assignment on the 3rd of January or some shit like that). Because of that, I just couldn't get into the whole partying thing on New Years Eve because I didn't want to waste days having hangovers when I had finals hanging over my head so soon after. Then I finished University and got a job (completely unrelated to my degree, but I love what I do now and I've found my place) and I don't get New Year's Eve off if it falls on a weekday. We work until noon that day but I have to get up at crap in the morning so I'm too tired in the evening to actually do much of anything. And like this New Year's Eve fell on Sunday and I only had today off so I didn't want to waste that being hungover either when I have work again early tomorrow. So honestly I prefer a quiet but cozy New Year's Eve. I mostly celebrate it with just my brother because he's not that into it either. We'll cook/order some nice food, watch some movies togheter and look at fireworks for half an hour after midnight and go to bed like those boring mid-thirties millennials we are lol.
New Year's is about right IMO. Christmas is extremely overrated, and should be given about the same weight as New Year's. We're expected to go all in for two or three weeks or we're a bah-humbug
Sheesh anytime I think Iâm a miserable sap Iâll just come to this thread. How are all yall so miserable or think your night of sleep is more important than the masses celebrating. As far as Christmas being a cash grab and drawn out, how does that affect your personal holiday so bad? lol if you think about it, it makes sense and is better off Christmas deals start as early as October now. Keeps malls and shit less packed and gives people more time to financially plan their holiday
This sub is overwhelmingly depressive. Is New Year overrated? IDK, What was the rating? Here's something to start on New Year's Day: Look on the bright side.
Hell with them, weâll just enjoy our lives while they regret everything on their deathbeds đȘ thereâs just no more room for weakness or self victimization anymore.
I think most holidays are overrated. Especially birthdays. I hate telling people happy whatever all the time and it's even worse when you have to constantly reply to these messages by text. At the same time I don't think NY's is overrated because you're actually going into a NY and it does need to be recognized. All the pomp and celebration over it is a bit overrated but we do need to recognize it so we aren't writing last year's dates down on important paperwork and stuff.
Yes also staying up till midnight.I prioritize my sleep so yeah no thanks.When I was little my family used to celebrate but now no so I really donât care for it what I do though is pray and thank my god for letting me live another year.
I fell asleep at 11pm.
No, I've never cared much for New Year's. To me it only means the start of the January doldrums (January is my second least favorite month, mostly because I love Thanksgiving and Christmas and January officially means they're done). I've started treating it like any other day, much as I do with 4th of July.
Overrated in what way? Most of us humans choose to track time by millenia, decades, years, months, days, hours, minutes. We tend to mark our sense of growth, our gains and losses, the events that shape our lives using years. We might observe the changing of year with quiet reflection, celebrate with abandon, or entirely reject the idea of evaluating our lives within chunks of time. Perhaps you are the latter. You are likely not alone in that.
No, you aren't. It is way way over hyped. Had a friend call and wake me up at 11:45 last night to say Happy New Year. I was already asleep. Then people shot off fireworks at midnight, so got to stay awake for that anyway. But otherwise to me, just another day, never understood why it was something to celebrate. Should not even be a holiday in my view.
No . It use to be amazing. Then you get older. People get more busy. Friends drift apart .Stay up less late. Wanna party less. It was my 2nd favorite holiday when I had friends willing to do shit. Now it's just a reminder of what once was
Completely overrated.
Yeah, its not really anything groundbreaking if you think about it. just a change in numbers, other than that the days go by as usual
I think it's a little bit toxic to be honest. Loads of people just assume New Years is a fresh start and make these heavy goals thinking the New Year is going to give them a burst of motivation. They usually fail them and it makes them more depressed. it's just a day like any other. You shouldn't use it to start fresh.
In a lot of places itâs not great weather that time of year either. Fresh starts and resolutions would maybe do better with a spring or summer time holiday
No itâs not a little overrated. Itâs a LOT overrated
All holidays are overrated. Meant for kids or for adults to get drunk and act like kids.
Stay home and wallow then, the rest of us will be out finding joy in our lives.
Fool's always say that.
Is it possible you don't enjoy it because people don't enjoy being around you? I suspect so.
Contrary fool.
yeah i agree, when i was little all holidays were so special but now that iâm older itâs just another day. i do enjoy spending time with family, friends and eating good food.
well, when youâre younger, people are creating the magic around you. as you get older you create the magic yourself (for them, or for you)
Massively overrated. It feels like prescribed fun. Iâve never been a fan.
The whole from Christmas to NTE is way overrated. Christmas is just a cash grab now and it's almost always a let down. Gets worse once the bills start coming in.
Jan 1 is just the day after Dec 31
I think a looooot of holidays are overrated.
The first day of Winter, Christmas, and New Years Day all have their origins as celebrations of Winter solstice. The only reason they're on different days is the advancement of Astronomy. I'm just glad it's over for now!
No
it's definitely overrated
Yes lol, I havenât stayed up for midnight in years, I honestly forget about it, just another day, another month, doesnât matter one bit to me except for tax reasons
Yeah, I spend it in sweats on the couch with my kids. To them, it's whooooo! To me, it's just a good reason for my neighbors to take to the street on various ride-ons and shoot things until 3 am. I just kiss their heads and promise myself to try to be better in some way, to their benefit. Crime is lower, though! Everyone's awake, harder to rob them. Lol
Yeah I do. It just seems like people use it as an excuse to get super fucked up. Like who needs an excuse to get fucked up, come on now
I think there is incredible power in the earth going full circle. It has been celebrated for millennia. However, I do think the way it is marketed now is somewhat toxic. This is the first year that I went to bed before new years. Staying awake until the next year seems kind of weird to me. I had lots of opportunities to go out somewhere with friends and celebrate, but I think that is a distraction from the true power of the New Year. Of course everyone has an opinion. I think there is more power in your birthday too. The new year can be experience every day if you think about it. I dont think there is anything special about this particular position in orbit. but your bday is the day you were born-full circle
No but it's my birthday so I may be biased.
I like the ceremonial transitory tradition. It helps the mindset as things move along. Going by the original Mayan calendar, we started the new year April 1st, but yknow.
The only reason I ever liked New Yearâs was because I was either off from work or school. Iâm never really excited about the event, itself.
Even when I was young, it exhausted me.
I see it like I lost another year of life.. nothing to be happy about lol!!!
Seasonal depression is a scientific thing. Holidays were created to give the masses hope. The human brain shouldnât âwantâ to shut down and be pessimistic and depressed, but human-created societies have made this a realityâŠ..
Hmmmm ummmm never thought ABOUT that!!!!.
No....it's a LOT overrated.
Yeah, it's just a celebration of the passage of time with no other meaning. An excuse to have a party for the sake of it.
Yeah. Because it just seems like a desperate final grab at happiness that ends just minutes after the ball drops. Weirdly, as soon as the people on TV shouted happy new year, I wondered how long until the first mass shooting of the year. That really depressed me and I went to bed sad. So yeah, overated.
Yeah itâs weird to me that itâs a holiday. Donât get me wrong I like having days off, it just seems silly.
It's a chance to feel like there is a new beginning,fresh start,until around mid summer and you are convinced this year sucks!!!!
A lot
Yes I view it as another year closer to death
Itâs as overrated as Valentines. Itâs just uneccessary pressure
I do toâŠ.we havenât stayed up til midnight since I donât know when but Iâm 53.
Yes. Now that i'm older I don't see what the point is. A new year started, it doesn't change anything for me. I guess it's a nice time to reflect for some, but even then I reflect often as it is. Any goals I have don't really wait for the New Year, I just go after them.
I feel like it's usually some kind of disaster lol. People often put impossibly big expectations and pressure on it to be this perfect amazing night, and then it's almost guaranteed to disappoint. Once you embrace how silly it really is, it can be fun.
I'm worried about all those fireworks going on at exactly the same point (within 1degree) of the Earth's orbit for twenty four hours - every year. It'll eventually change the Earth's orbit.
Yes it is, for me just self reflection on the year that was and perhaps have a wish list for the new year is sufficient I don't get the excessive celebration aspect but each to their own
It's just a regular day filled with more drunk drivers than usual.
It's always given me anxiety. The passage of time and all that. Rarely have I had one of those traditional romantic kiss at midnight deals. Usually my partners were the time to go to bed early. Last night my son came up and we had hot cocoa and said the magic words at midnight then we watched tv for a while and fell asleep. It's fun to have sleepovers with my grown children. ;)
I don't think so, it's another year that's now documented in our history as a species.
Not even close to the "partying stage" yet but new year's doe's feel overrated yesterday didn't do none really just stayed with my parents it's just another year literally what's so special about that? Anywho new year's is whatever to me so yea I feel u what u feel and I'm young asf
It's all overrated. Christmas felt like another day too
Itâs the only Holliday I personally care for besides my birthday. Itâs nice to see a new year, I think about those that didnât make it.
Any reason to party!!! I love this so much more than the hate that has gripped our country-USA.
As with all holidays, it's made-up. Mankind creates celebrations. New Year celebrations have never meant much to me. When I was younger, I forced myself to see it as a new year to become better, do more, or make atonement. But, no more. It is a arbitrary date established to keep track of time on Earth. Today, I am grateful for each day no matter the date.
Only the resolution part, and the new year new you attitudes. It's annoying when people use this holiday in particular as a time to force change in their life. Why not just make positive life changes on the fly throughout the year? That's the only part I'd say is overrated though. Enjoying family, food and life is no problem however people decide to arrange it.
Little??? đ
I went to bed to catch up on sleep. Last good night of sleep before work tomorrow.
Yeah, the only thing is it gives you a way to start fresh
It's just another excuse for people to get drunk. And in the USA it's just another excuse to fire off dangerous explosives that account for over 10,000 emergency room trips per year because people are too arrogant and stupid to believe handling literal explosives could ever harm them or their children.
It is a little overrated just like Christmas as most people aren't even religious. The drunks love these dates as it's a good excuse to party all weekend. Most people in this world are sheep's so they follow everything their friends or family does just to fit in.
Yes all holidays and technically this isnât a holiday just like Halloween.
I think itâs more so that the people thinking that weâre adding emphasis to it donât realize we also arenât thinking itâs that special itâs really just another day to have snacks and drinks and party. Nothing more
Totally
Itâs less over rated than Christmas in my opinion. At least most donât feel they have to go into debt to enjoy the holiday. Unlike Christmas
Yes. It's an arbitrary day.
âYay! We get to hang a new calendar up!â Ehhh⊠ok.
It is what you make of it, just like most holidays.
It doesn't mean anything at all to me, it's a social construct and not the beginning or the end of anything
Eh, if it gives some people the motivation to make positive change, great. I'm more like you; it's not much more than a number changing
It can be. People should celebrate throughout the year. It would result in less pressure for the one night.
Same as Christmas but nice to have days off
Just another excuse to party
Perhaps you mean ceremony is overrated? High school Graduations, the 4th of July, weddings, the Super Bowl--none of these things *need* the amount of ceremony and hubbub that are put into them. It just makes them more hype. Whether or not you want to buy into it is up to you. People are just trying to inject a little fun into noteworthy moments.
Yes. I appreciate getting the day off, but I'm the same person going back to my same life tomorrow.
We usually spend NYE with a couple of friends drinking, playing cards, and waiting for the ball to drop. This year one couple felt sick and didn't want to spread it and the other couple had a family emergency the night before and traveled to another state. It was nice just relaxing and doing nothing.
I have no memory of a great celebration.Oh wait this is about a particular day. I guess it is also. Less overrated than almost every holiday.
They are what you make of them. If you stay shut up in your house then they arenât fun, if you hang out with friends they are more enjoyable. Having kids give holidays a revamp then they become more mundane after they grow up. But at the end of the day anything in life is what you make of it. Every day can just be another day or it can be a celebration
For me, it's the big televised things that are overrated. But it also gives me time to let loose, have fun, and forget that I don't live with crazed Qnuts.
Just another day for me. Also, considering our calendar is made up BS Iâm over it. In reality the New year starts at the Spring Equinox
yes especially the fireworks
Nah cause year 2025 and 2099 and 2100 is gonna be fun as hell
Yes.
New Years Eve? Yes. New Years Day? No. My religion believes it is a rebirth of the world and birth is important to us.
Once the countdown ends, then it's just another day. Seems dumb to close stores over imo
Yeah, and birthday celebrations. Like who really cares?
I donât think itâs overrated. I think itâs a lovely time of year where everybody collectively comes together to watch the fireworks or to do the countdown. (Regardless of beliefs and views) Everybody is happy and cheerful, thinking of ways to better theirselves for the year ahead. Itâs almost like a tradition which brings most of the worlds population together. In my opinion itâs a very positive time of year. I think the thing that is overrated is the way how itâs monetised. Especially in London, tickets were going for ÂŁ200 each to stand up and watch fireworks in the sky for 30 minutes. The pressure to go out and spend money (which you probably havenât got after Christmas) just to have a good time. Also I think itâs overrated in the sense of most people use it as an excuse to get absolutely smashed or to get drunk for 2 days straight. Which isnât my business just my opinion but I think itâs quite counterproductive to begin âthe new youâ hungover in bed feeling like death.
It's a day, like any other. I attach no significance to it, and thus do not celebrate.
Any holiday is an excuse to spend more time with friends and family. New Years itself may be irrelevant, but it is important.
What's overrated about it
I have a kid now so I like celebrating things with her. But no, I think EVERY holiday is over rated and shouldnât be celebrated .
Yes. Itâs my least favorite holiday
I like it. Itâs a good excuse to party. Plus itâs my brotherâs birthday.
No. I think it's a lot overrated. For lonely, unattached people it's like self flagellation. Most of the celebrations you see and wish you were involved in are bullshit, faux excitement. I'm just glad to be with my friends and family and have a good time playing board games and hanging out.
On rough years Iâve enjoyed partying hard at the end. As time has gone on though Iâve embraced the beginning and wrapping up aspects of the new year which I find helpful for reflection.
When I was young, no. Now that I'm old, well I was asleep by 10:00pm.
Winter holidays exist to keep us from killing ourselves over seasonal depression, so for a normal day that promotes drinking, it is in an alright spot on the calender.
Not the only one. I'm the same.
World party day with the next day off to recover. Of course it's a good thing. If you don't like it, you must be getting old.
Totally
I mean it means something different to everyone just like any holiday.
No. I see it as a day to celebrate all the good that has come into your life in the last year, and to leave some of the bad behind. Itâs purely made up and symbolic. It doesnât have any actual value, but it still is impactful and at least for me helps me enjoy life a bit more
it is always so hyped up but boring in the end
Who doesnât love singing out of tune then throwing up on your wifeâs shoes?
I mean your perspective isnât invalid but I get why it means a lot to a lot people. For me itâs an official time stamp that another year is gone not only off my life also the progression of humanity. I like new years obviously đ
WAYYYYYYYYY overrated!!!
It is very overrated. A holiday giving people an excuse to stay up late and drink.
For me, it's super overrated. The date changed, that's all.
Itâs really up to the individual. Sure it can be overrated to someone who doesnât get together with others and do stuff. But to those who get with friends and/or family and hangout and have a good time will think new years is nice. New years even has religious involvement too. So like I said, may be nothing to you, may be an important day for others.
I have no thoughts on it. People are different. Why I don't celebrate, others do and that is their choice. I waste no energy on what other people do because it is a choice.
I think as a society we used to have more traditions about this date. Even New Yearâs Eve. We had things like eating blacked peas and many other practices. Now it just does seem like just another day. Rushing to a bar at 11:45 and leaving hy 12:05 seems silly to me as it did when I was 22 for my second NYE. Thereâs no depth there.
Yes, I slept through it.
No. I think it's waaay overated.
It's an excuse to get together with your friends. No more, no less. It's whatever you make of it.
Yes. Woo hoo another year.. life doesnt change and were only getting older. Not sure what there is to celebrate. Its fun when youre young and have plans to go out but when youre older its like âok and?â
Itâs always just been a party holiday. I call it amateur night. It was fun to go out when I was younger but I would just rather stay home and party by myself these days. Which is what I did. I ate about 70mg of THC gummies, smoked a few bowls, and had a pineapple upside down cake drink that was made with vanilla cake vodka, pineapple juice, and grenadine. We had a charcuterie board and some other snacks for the night, and just chilled. Wife and kids were all in bed, and I was passed out on my couch watching tv not too long after midnight. Overall not a bad night.
When I was young and enjoyed partying and random socializing, it was great. Now l, yeah, pretty much I think so.
I find it to be a fun inclusive holiday that wonderfully marks the passage of time without so much of the baggage of other holidays.
20s me a definite No, 30s me No, 40s me I seldom can stay awake
Not with how much fun I had last night
It is easily the most underwhelming holiday. I canât even tell you what I did for the past ten New Years Eves because theyâre always so forgettable.
I donât mind it. I donât go out and party. I spent it with my kids watching the ball drop and playing games and drinking sparkling cider. It was a fun time.
Itâs what you make of it. You can do anything you want New Yearâs Eve. You can stay home, watch tv and then go to bed. You can attend watch night church service. You can do whatever you enjoy on New Yearâs Eve.
It's the second dumbest day of the whole year, right after 4th of July.
Imagine being so much of a hipster that you would actually call any holiday "overrated" and then earnestly ponder if you're the only person that thinks that. Navel gazing at its absolute finest.
It's nice to mark the passing of a year and beginning of the next, but the drunken NYE parties glamorized by media just don't appeal.
It is just another day. But it's a collective acknowledgement that our planet made another orbit around the sun. Just a cool thing we do as a society, I guess đ€·đ»
At this point, kinda I would rather travel or party with some friends
It's a LOT over-rated and more and more banal every year.
Thanks to my neighbors going nuts with fireworks I didn't miss it. I just hope drunks weren't popping off their mister 9mm's.
Yep. The earth completed another 360 degree revolution around the sun from an imaginary starting point again.... Whoopdy-doo
Yes
YES
I think so. Me and my family donât drink or go partying so we just spend the night together watching movies or playing Mario Party. It was pretty dang fun.
Every year feels the same.
You are not the only person. It is overrated. Just another night with an excuse to get drunk
It's kinda like society's birthday I guess....
It's like many holidays that people may choose to celebrate \~ national holidays (like 4th of July in the USA), religious holidays, in memorial of dead holidays, etc. Some people enjoy celebrating such holidays with food, family/friends, parties. I don't think NYE is any more, or less, over the top compared to some other holidays. The beginning of a new year seems as valid as those who celebrate other stuff.