Anyone else hate New Year?

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I hate this time of the year every year along with Christmas. It's all too much unwanted attention for me and usually excuses for everyone else to just go out and get drunk. I don't find either of these times enjoyable at all and every New Year end up feeling overly lonely due to everyone else being out.

Even my friends that rarely go out are going out and I'll have no one to talk to tonight :/ Add tonight to my other recent problems and it's gonna be even worse this year. I hate feeling miserable every year just because everyone else around me thinks it's totally fine to be as loud and as drunk as they want. It's even more annoying when they think you're weird and have no life just because you choose to not do what everyone else does.

I dread December. Last year was awful when I got so depressed I felt like killing myself.

Times like tonight when Simple Plan's - I'm Just A Kid, fits perfectly.

ME!

Sounds a lot like me
I'm going to hide in a darkened room this evening to avoid it. I'll be keeping occupied and away from online and real life interaction later this evening to avoid feeling miserable.

I don't hate it, It just feels pretty grim to know that most people are celebrating but there's me, just being me and doing nothing.

My (NT) mother always told me it was a non-holiday. It was just an arbitrary day you were expected to be happier than you are, especially if you have a SO. The whole holiday is probably an excuse for LVMH to increase sales.

They should skip it. Just like birthdays. Or at least one of them. The problem is that every ny or every birthday you think you're gonna die one year earlier. But because you have one birthday and one new year every year you actually think that you're dying twice as fast.
It's horrible

Well, Christmas and New Years used are really fun. Yeah, when I was a f*****g 9 year old. Yeah I really drank the kool-aid then. Hell, nowadays, I'm lucky if I get through Christmas without having a psychotic breakdown. Things just really went down hill in the last 5 years for me. The last good Christmas I had was 6 years ago.

Anyways, this New Years is even more uncomfortable than last year. For one, we have 6 people staying in a 1,200 foot, three-bedroom house. My mom is staying over just because my dad is too tired, and my sister's boyfriend is here until 7 January. Not to mention I have very heavy babysitting duties for my other sister's kid.

So yeah, I just really think holidays are a piss anymore. I f*****g can't stand them. They are gnawing at the root of my sanity.

i am filled with feelings of dread and foreboding for the sure-to-be-disasterous new year we've just stumbled into. i have always dreaded january, the most dreary and sad and discouraging month there ever was. it is like having reached the top of the mountain [december, when i was born] and suddenly finding oneself right at the bottom again , with a heavy weight one must laboriously shove uphill, an inch at a time, until december rolls around again. you can tell december is my favorite month.

Know what I really hate? The whole holiday period. New Year's Day is an arbitrary date set during the Roman Empire, for purposes that are totally irrelevant 2000 years after the life of Julius Caesar. I hate when Halloween comes around and everybody is s**tfaced drunk and careening around the city like madmen, I just hide under the bed until daylight. Thanksgiving isn't so bad, but my birthday is on November 27, and I feel much like blabby does, there's only 35 days between my birthday and New Year's Day, so I feel permanently out of synch, although it's not as bad as it was when I was a kid. Christmas used to be great when I was a kid, now it's the start of the countdown to the New Year, and what I call Hell Week (Dec 25-Jan 1). I call it that because all the NTs are in party mode, you can't get anything done during that week because the NTs are focused on partying and planning their New Year parties. Then the New Year is here and after all the (American) football games I can finally exhale. It's dreadful. FINALLY January 2 is tomorrow, so the bad part of the year is finally over.

I love Christmas but when the New Year comes around, I feel a little jaded for a few days. I feel this anxiety on the 30th and 31st of December that the new year is upon me and I have unpleasant childhood memories of going back to school and not feeling a warm welcome from my typical peers. I also don't understand how people can be so tolerant in December and those same people are very nasty after the Christmas holidays. I've known my mum to act that way a couple of times. The last time was in the early January of 2009. I told myself that I can't do anything right in January. I've changed my tune about that month over the past 2 years, but it doesn't erase my past experiences with that month.

today's "real life adventures" comic strip said it best:

"once again we are tied to the tracks of time by the invisible hand of fate, and left to perish in the path of the locomotive of dashed dreams under the hard, cold wheels of reality."

Indeed, I find it mind-numbingly stupid how people use something as simple as a change in the calendar - something which occurs every single day - as an excuse to get drunk and act like idiots. Surely we've already reached a point where we don't need excuses to do that, since so many people go out and get drunk every night anyway? Why do we need to make such a big deal about another 365 days of misery?

I'll save my celebrations for if that apocalypse actually comes this December.

New Years is one of the most melancholy times of year for me. It's supposed to be about new beginnings and optimism but for me it's more a mix of bleak/clouded nostalgia and dread. I don't like it at all.

one of the advantages of growing old, is that time flows under the bridge progressively more quickly. i hope this year goes by faster than the last one did.

I feel nostalgic about a time that I like, instead of looking to the future, during my first days of January. I get over it around the 6th.

I feel nostalgic about Christmases past instead of looking to the future during my first days of January. I get over it around the 6th.