Anyone else thinking....here comes the new year, same as the old year?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Would be nice to know that I am not the only one feeling down and, frankly speaking just for me, utterly defeated.

No need to share why, but knowing I am not the only one would help.

Absolutely defeated. If I could crawl under a rock and stay there for the foreseeable, I would.

I'm with you. I always used to feel emotional about the new year and what it might bring , I don't even feel that now. Just feel tired and deflated.

Sums it up

Whether or not it makes sense to celebrate the fact that the earth has made another revolution around the sun is debateable really. It's entirely symbolic anyway.

When people are popping corks and chanting and singing at midnight it won't actually be the moment that the earth completed its revolution. Although, this is a leap year so it might be quite close. Next year when the clock hits 12 it will roughly 6 hours since the annual circuit was completed.

Oh and here we go. Fireworks and my cat yowling. And someone in the flat upstairs has just cranked up the D&B. Going to join my cat with the yowling.

We can all yowl together......

Same state than you. Hoping this new year will be better but already stressed out and dreading it

Everything is trending downwards, everything is shit.

Let's celebrate a new year.

Everything has seemed warped and weird since.

Last year was tough, this year might be tougher so I'll need to keep my wits about me. It's just exhausting being on red alert all the time.

Much love and best wishes to all going through tough times as well.

It's 25 years since the millennium
5 since Covid
Time does fly

2024 was shit . Here's to a happy and healthy 2025 for us all when it. 🩷🩷🩷🩷

I know this year is bringing in a divorce for me. I'm so sad the kids are going to have to go through that.

Yup

Gah, starting as I mean to go on with the same level of technical ineptitude I have been cultivating since the invention if the wheel apparently. But alas, I can't figure out where I'm downloading it to on my phone....

Really wanted to put up a meme that has made me smile wryly when I've seen it.

It's a bunch of people with ten thousand yard stares hiding round a corner while poking open a door with 2025 on it with a long handled broom. It would be utterly appropriate for this thread I feel.

Anyway, still in solidarity with you all - have a peaceful night if you can 😘 and may the Universe treat you kindly.

Without going into detail..I forsee 25 just being more of the same for us .

Turn on BBC Alba. The music is great. It might lift your mood.

I am the same, have come downstairs because I can't sleep with his snoring, even with earplugs. So fed up of having to sleep on the sofa most nights but it's the only way I get some sleep.

I’ve pretty much ignored new years completely the last few years, I don’t go out, don’t mark it in any way and don’t watch any of the new year shows. I do stay up past midnight but only because I’m up that late anyway when I’m off work. I find ignoring the new year and not marking it at all makes me feel less down about it, it’s just another day, just an arbitrary point at which to mark the year, realistically there’s no reason it would actually mark change and so better to just ignore it for me.

I’m going into this year already tired and drained, knowing that this is the year that my dad will probably die, my kids marriages have or are in the process of breaking down, my niece and nephew are waiting to hear about life threatening diagnoses. I can’t see anything improving. I’m usually very positive and resilient but haven’t been able to do anything to recharge over this period as DH has worked all through (nurse), and I’ve been left with all the practical arrangements and emotional support for everyone.

It’s a struggle.

I'm sorry that you are feeling like this OP, and the rest who are too. I'm feeling down too. Argued with DH a few days ago and it's one of those trivial arguments that's not really about the trivia but about a deep down core pain that gets poked every now and then, and I don't see the damage being easily repaired in the next couple of days, when his mum is coming to stay as well. He's a good man but so fucking emotionally illiterate on occasions and it really hurts.

Solidarity OP and PPs. I too feel so pessimistic, this year has been a shit show of bereavements, financial worries and some extra crappy diagnoses on top of an already extensive list. I'm only in my early 50s but good health, stability and optimism all feel like things from the long distant past. My home is filthy and ridiculously cluttered, and is only going to get worse thanks to poor mental and physical health. Gah, thanks for the opportunity to get that off my chest! Hoping for miracles for us all!!

I’ve started 2025 feeling like shit too. Utterly deflated. DH didn’t wish me a Happy New Year for the first time in 30 years together (we have kind of fallen out as I’m mad with him)

Everyone else is downstairs and I’m in bed, my health is rubbish and means I have to spend large amounts of time in bed.

different year, same shit

Yup. Will make not a jot of difference to me. DD is still very mentally unwell and I shall very likely spend 2025 fighting for help and support, trying my damndest to help her recover. Two full years so far. Several things achieved. Still a very long road ahead.

I've given up planning. I take each day as it comes, it's easier that way.

i’ve decided I’m just going to go about my life now how I want to. I will laugh at what I find funny (even if it’s not PC), I will engage in banter if I want, even if offends everyone someone & I’m only having people in my life that I find funny, kind or interesting & everyone else I’ll be pleasant to but I don’t want them as friends.

I’m not jumping on the ‘dry January’ boat or any other ‘now’ thing. I’m
going to enjoy it, doing the things I want to do.
Definitely going into the new year with a different attitude.

me.
thank you all for starting and sharing this and I’m sorry its hard doe
you all too. 2024
nearly finished me off and I have no energy for 2025 but i need it caring for 2
kids with additional needs and an elderly parent and debt and I don’t see any light anywhere at all. I feel bone weary.