Don’t give into desperation whether you don’t lock lips as the clock strikes midnight. Some of the most memorable years start when you give up on romantic mythsThere’s a certain social-romantic tyranny that persists with regard to the holidays of our lives,from birthdays to Valentine’s Day to even Halloween. And the biggest, baddest, or most socially stressful holiday of all is New Year’s Eve: its the wedding of holidays; the one that,even whether you eschew all the rest, you acquire to depart all-in for; the one with the biggest price point; the one that requires napkins with special sayings. As with weddings, or it’s also the one holiday that,on some level, even very smart people feel should in some way represent themselves and their future, and what is a future in which you die alone? (perhaps quite nice,as dying with people seems inherently problematic, but that’s another matter entirely.) Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com