Happy New Year, for whom?

“Happy New year, wish you happy and successful life”….flock of such sms and bbms popped up into my mobile phone. I lazily opened them up and deleted one by one. “Guys,” my heart whispered, “I don’t need all of these.” May be this is the time I feel sorry for having a mobile phone due to receiving many unwanted messages. It seems that other annoyances are not enough to disturb me along the night, such as the noise around my surrounding, coming from the bursts and eruptions of fireworks.

People might think that I am sort of weird, for not celebrating the new-year eve. But I never care about it. It’s been a long time I’ve been thinking of why people are very fond of event of the year-changing night. Millions of money spent just for making the night joyful and glorious. Uncounted are the fireworks lit and gasoline wasted in cars trapped in traffic jam in and out of amusement areas. For me, on the contrary, it is just another changing day, no more or less. Unless you have a history on it, such as birthday or independence day, or any other significant event related with the day, the day is just like yesterday or two days a go. It has 24 hours long, a sun rise around 6 a.m and a sun set around 6 p.m.

In the past, New Year celebration is always related to a religious belief. The popular belief says that it comes from Christianity. According to Christian mythology, 1 January is the day of the circumcision of Jesus (on the eighth day of his birth), when the name of Jesus was given to him. But all we know is majority Christians have a faith that Jesus Christ is born on 25th December. If it so, then why don’t they celebrate New Year on the date? Why should the fiesta be celebrated on his circumsition day?

Another account tells a more bizarre story. The New Year celebration on 31st December night actually followed a tradition by Roman tribes who celebrated the birth of their god of sun. According their belief the god of Sun is born on the eve of 1st January so they had a fiesta for it. This tradition of celebrating the birth of Sun god was then adopted by Julius Caesar as the starting day of new year.

Whatever the meaning and story it may have, for me it is just another holiday. But the problem is that I cannot enjoy it like another holiday since too many disturbances around my area. And if you try to run away from your home, then the traffic jam will face you everywhere.
God, how long I can hold on from suffering this pain.

Anyway, Happy New Year for you who celebrate it, mates...hiks