This year New Years felt a little anticlimactic. I don’t know if it was because of the state the economy, the fact that there’s no short term fix in sight, or because New Years came early this year.
When I think of New Years, I picture TV shots of throngs of people celebrating in the center of large cities, capped by a climactic moment with great displays of emotion. I think the reason December 31st didn’t feel like New Years is because it actually took place about two months prior, on November 4th, 2008. Instead of “rockin” in another New Years with Dick Clark (can you believe that guy?), we ushered in a New Era with Barack Obama.
I didn’t hear a lot of friends or family members talk about resolutions this year. It feels like everyone is deferring their personal goals to the President–Elect’s hopes for us as a country.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of New Years, I think of Times Square, which is next to Broadway in New York. Since Obama’s been elected, I feel like we’re listening to/watching a long overture at a Broadway show who’s curtain won’t go up until January 20th.
Here’s hoping we get a musical.
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Yo Dude,
You're right - New Year's did come early this year - 12/29 to be exact - when you hit the BIG 5-0! And that sensation you had two months earlier was not Obama's election. It was your 50th birthday party!
That "New Era" you're feeling is known as Old Age. When you're closer to being 100 than to your actual date of birth, you're old. When you think people are deferring their New Year's resolutions to the President-Elect you're both old and delusional.
Welcome to the club.
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