New Years Eve

This is one of the few holidays that is celebrated more or less “the night before.” For some people Christmas Eve is more important than Christmas, but as far as I know nobody really cares about the day before Easter, or The Night of Pre-Thanksgiving.

So, in the spirit of everything, I’m going to make my New Year’s resolution early. I, along with most people, have a terrible record when it comes to keeping resolutions. I’m pretty sure that in the past my resolutions have included excercise (whose haven’t?), work, or other silly things that take effort to do.

This year, I’m going to take a step in the right direction and make a resolution dealing solely with attitude: I will be less cynical.

Every year I seem to be a little more cynical around the holidays as I do more and more “critical thinking” about society and religion. Together, they’ve turned me into a pagan capitalist-hating social anarchist nutbag who can’t seem to really enjoy Christmas. My little epiphany gland is telling me that I need to start enjoying holidays (and the rest of the year) for the “goodwill” spirit of it.

Christmas should be like line dancing. It’s OK to be a collective embarrassment to life so long as people are smiling and have a good time.

Happy New Year, everyone.