heathen
"If it didn't exist [the new year's eve]... we should probably ignore the coming and going of time..." actually we wouldn't, my dear. as far as i know, the new year's eve is a somewhat recent celebration. heathen cultures of old celebrated the solstice of winter and summer, for example - back then, the passing of the seasons was enough for everyone to understand the coming and going of time, as you said. i don't know much about the subject, but it kinda makes sense to me that the new year's eve could only be celebrated after the western calendar was implemented - and as such, it's a moment for celebration as good as any other.
and, as such, we drink and party as if there would gonna be no tomorrow. sounds fair to me.
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It is a celebration of time... i guess, so its so fair as any other, even «the solstice of winter and summer» celebration. I just think this one or the new years works as a alarm. BUBU, people, time is passing. That is exactly the same reason why you celebrate your birthday. I think if you didnt, or anyone arround you reminded you of it... the time would just be a wrinkle on your face.
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i agree with everything you say, hun. but if you ask me, i find it rather silly to celebrate the passing of time. even more when we are young. see, when we celebrate the new year's eve, we're celebrate the fact that one more year has passed. we're older, but not necessarily wiser (this is especially true if we talk about the younger generations...). same goes for the birthday's celebration - if you dig it to the end, you'll find out that you're celebrating nothing but one year less of your life.
and no matter how we celebrate the birthday, the new year's eve or any other "track-of-time celebration", the wrinkles on our face will always be a better memento of our fading life. remember the song: "all of these lines across my face/tell you the story of who i am..."
:)
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