The new year.
It's the final day of the year. In a few hours, it will be 12 months ago, 365 days ago. Unless you're looking at it like an entire new decade - in which case it's 120 months ago, 10 years ago.
There are a lot of people spending hard-earned money to celebrate tonight. What exactly are they celebrating? Are they celebrating their 2009, or the coming of 2010? Did they have a great 2009 and are cherishing its last day, or did they have a shitty one and are celebrating the coming of a theoretical 'clean slate' in 2010? I'd like to believe the former, but with each passing day of my life, the idea of a person going through a year that was good enough to celebrate seems less and less probable. Haleigh Cummings. Somer Thompson. Ronald Gifford. American Culture. So many things and people lost this year and decade. The King of Pop. George Harisson. Thousands on 9/11/01. Bush Tax Cut fucks everybody. And then there's the approx. 1,000,000 people that are going to die tonight because they insisted on celebrating the very same period of time that haunted the better part of the population.
"Hey, did you hear about the family of 10 that was killed when a drunk driver hit them at 100mph?"
"No,"
"There they go."
So I ask you this, the 0 people from my Facebook reading this:
Why are you celebrating tonight?
There are a lot of people spending hard-earned money to celebrate tonight. What exactly are they celebrating? Are they celebrating their 2009, or the coming of 2010? Did they have a great 2009 and are cherishing its last day, or did they have a shitty one and are celebrating the coming of a theoretical 'clean slate' in 2010? I'd like to believe the former, but with each passing day of my life, the idea of a person going through a year that was good enough to celebrate seems less and less probable. Haleigh Cummings. Somer Thompson. Ronald Gifford. American Culture. So many things and people lost this year and decade. The King of Pop. George Harisson. Thousands on 9/11/01. Bush Tax Cut fucks everybody. And then there's the approx. 1,000,000 people that are going to die tonight because they insisted on celebrating the very same period of time that haunted the better part of the population.
"Hey, did you hear about the family of 10 that was killed when a drunk driver hit them at 100mph?"
"No,"
"There they go."
So I ask you this, the 0 people from my Facebook reading this:
Why are you celebrating tonight?