hi all just wanted to see how people feel about new year?i personally hate it ,i have done for many years now as we went through a run of bad luck after hoping for a happy new year, i love xmas but dont celebrate new year i often go to bed and hear the revellers singing and fireworks going off and am just glad when its done,am i the only misery?lol xxx
No you’re not alone Fairyqueen, I’ve hated New Year for ages - don’t know why, it just makes me really sad!!
Personally I really enjoy New Year, especially since I have had BC - I celebrate being alive and well and all the good things going on in my life.
Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t a bed of roses, but it sure is better than 2008.
I dislike Christmas because it has become too commercial and get-get-get. People are so greedy and selfish and children are completely spoilt.
Well this is only how I feel as I think the New Year is one of those things you either love or hate.
Especially if it’s a lovely clear night I’m out in the garden at midnight, gazing at the stars and chinese lanterns whizzing by and just quietly happy and grateful to still be here after living so long with mets. But I have members of my family who find, have always found the New Year sad just like others here.
Hope all who don’t like the New Year had a good, peaceful Christmas and I hope 2012 will be a kind year to us all…x.x.x.x
Hmmm, an interesting question to ponder! I happen to love both Christmas and New Year, but know lovely people for whom each or both is associated with tragedy or loss… needless to say makes my job challenging at times trying to hold a candle of hope in the darkness of reality for other people.
New Year’s Eve 2010 was my final chemo, ahead of my surgery this year. For me there was something significant in finishing that phase of treatment in that year. I am one of the lucky ones in the Land of NED, and this New Year I will look back with gratitude and with sadness - I have made and lost friends already on this journey.
However people feel about marking New Year, whether tucked up in bed, our partying, being religious, or even if they are the person with St Eroid buzz who cannot sleep, I hope, I really do, that 2012 will be filled with magical moments, hope, love, laughter and life.
<hug> and raise a glass of whatever to you all ~/</hug>
My little granddaughter will be 1 on 30th December. She was my new year present last year and my hope for the future for next year. Beat wishes to everyone for the new year.Love Mo xx
I hate New Year - used to love it! 23 years ago, on New Years Day - my Dad announced he was going to start a get fit regime - eating healthily taking more exercise etc etc. In the afternoon he had a fit - it was the first sign of a brain tumour and he died on April 13th. I think that every day should be treated as a gift that shouldn’t be wasted.
Sorry if this post has come across as a bit maudlin - wasn’t meant to be and I am my usual chirpy self today! - District Nurse described me as a “Trouper” this morning which I thought was quite funny because she doesn’t know my nickname in this forum.
Don’t know why, but I have always hated New Year! Much prefer Christmas 
However, am looking forward to getting through all this by this time next year and hoping that 2012 will be better than the last couple of months have been, and for everyone else on here too!
xxx
Nice post, RevCat.