About "Happy New Year"
Thursday, January 1, 2004
I intended to put this post this post a little bit early yesterday, well, in this case, last year to talk about some interesting opinion about the term "Happy New Year". It's a rather pessimistic idea about the actual meaning of happy new year to many people.
There are so many people who aren't satisfied with their lives in the past year and want a new start. Saying Happy New Year to each other seems to bring happiness to everyone althought it may not change the luck or whatever you need to change the life around. It's just another way to comfort yourself and other people and say, it's okay, next year, everything will be different and better. Let's have high hope for it and expect every wish you made in the last minute of the year will come true, all the distress and sadness in the past year will be gone, the world will be peaceful for a while after Saddam were captured... Not everything will change over time, but we have hope, and we hope the new year will truly a happy one. Until then, we can say at the end of the year, I had a happy old year and I will have a happy new year!
Posted at January 1, 2004 in Thoughts
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