to never 'get' new year?

[NewUser2022]

I just hate all the nonsense around it.
Nothing really changes when the clock moves 1 second past midnight.
But all the hype of it being a 'new year' as if it's some kind of mega-shift in people's lives.
I've never celebrated it, find it a huge waste of time (and sleep!) and genuinely don't understand why anyone thinks today is any different to yesterday other than it's a new month and we have to remember to put 2022 on stuff.

Fair enough.

Happy new year to you too

I agree totally. Same shit, different day. It makes not the slightest bit of difference that it happens to be a new year!

I suppose it's an arbitrary turning point, and it rounds off the festive period. It's not a big deal for most people.

I don’t think anyone actually thinks anything automatically changes. However, if people see it as a threshold and a motivator to make positive changes, that can only be a good thing.

I'm not really bothered. Never stay up as I love my sleep! It's fine to plan nice things for the year ahead though.

I feel the same, it seems weird to me that people celebrate it! Much prefer Christmas.

I agree. It's the wrong time for me to be making any resolutions or anything right now so nothing will change just because it's 2022. I was asleep by 11 last night as usual. Have no issue with anyone who wants to celebrate it though.

I've always found it a good way to mentally reset, especially the past 2 years. Of course nothing actually changes between 11.59 & 12.01. I don't do the whole "new year, new you" stuff and don't make new years resolutions but I do find it a nice way to reflect on the year just gone and start to look forward to the year to come.

The way I look at it, personal birthdays are more of a turning point. It's a time when you might ask what you have achieved or lost in your year. And what you want to change in the years you have ahead .

I don't think anything changes but it's just a marker for 4 seasons having passed and a nice excuse to reflect on the last few months and get excited about what's to come. And an excuse for a party. There's not really a point to birthdays or anniversaries either really but celebrations make life a bit nicer.

I love New Years Day, feels like a reset. It's cold outside and everything feels fresh. No, nothing has actually changed but I still love it.

Totally with you, OP. Just don't get it.

I don’t think anyone actually thinks anything automatically changes. However, if people see it as a threshold and a motivator to make positive changes, that can only be a good thing

Yeah, this. Only if folks want to though.

Agree with Turtle. You could apply your odd logic to anything- what’s the point of birthdays Christmas etc. it’s good to pause look back at old year and gear up for new one.

I think new year upsets a lot of people who feel they should have plans and don’t hence the strong feelings against it!

I agree with you OP. Also I love parties and socialising but hate enforced jollity. I'm also pretty frugal so I hate it when restaurants and bars hike their prices for a night. So I don't celebrate NYE, Valentines Day or Mothers Day. However I will go out for a lovely meal with close friends tomorrow. It will be normal prices, no enforced set menu with too many courses and I'll get to go to bed at a reasonable hour instead of forcing myself to stay awake until midnight.

It’s an excuse to celebrate, not sure what more you need to “get”. It’s not really a complex concept. I’ve has quiet ones, been to house parties with friends, hosted house parties, been out for dinner, had a film night… I wouldn’t describe doing any of that with my family a huge waste of time. I do think nye can be absurdly expensive but you don’t have to choose that.

I feel the opposite. It's the bleakest darkest time of year when without social pressure to clean and decorate our homes for Christmas we'd just fall into a stupir. Then after Christmas, we'd slump again, but NYE and NYD give us that bit of impetus to reset our goals and plan for the year ahead. I absolutely love it. Dry Jan, out running and hiking, fresh new diary to fill with events to look forward to. Without these external pressures I'd be fast asleep under the divet for months on end.

I feel exactly the same. I really hate it that everyone says Happy New Year from 26th December onwards, it's not new year!

I also hate it when people message gushing messages at midnight on 1st Jan.

I can't pinpoint exactly why I want to ignore the occasion so strongly. It is worse this time, after 2 rough years.

Christmas is just another day, birthdays are just another day, Mother's day is just another day etc. Sometimes we just like to celebrate and be happy, if you don't then don't. New Year's seems a fairly easy one to avoid if you don't like it, just go to bed.

I've never got the hype for paying over the top for meals and drinks out etc. I have celebrated it with friends and family in the past. This year plans were scuppered due to close family having covid. I suppose most people, not all, get the day off work on New year's day so it is traditionally a time when family can be together.

@NewUser2022

The way I look at it, personal birthdays are more of a turning point. It's a time when you might ask what you have achieved or lost in your year. And what you want to change in the years you have ahead .

So you do really get it? Because that's what most people do at The New Year. You just prefer to do it on a different date.

Personally, I find spring time and the beginning of a new school term more appropriate times to have a bit of a 'fresh start'. But I still understand why people like new year.

You don't need to get it or do it!

But Happy New Year!

I really like new year but I am not fussed about Christmas. I guess we are all different 🙂.

I like it but don't actively celebrate it. I do feel I can leave the previous year behind and start afresh. The evenings are getting brighter and there is spring to look forward to. It marks the passing of another 4 seasons in the cycle of life. It is a good t8me to look forward after the darkness leading up to Christmas. I don't feel the need to mark it in any outward way or drink or party but I do like to see it in and say goodbye to the old year.