Anyone else refuse to celebrate New Years

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This new year I refused to acknowledge the celebrations. I was extremely fortunate to find a new place before my parents forced me to g back to my disgustingly filthy student address. Despite my parents urging me to stay for new years I felt no compulsion to be around people. I dont see why people make such a fuss over it. The change in calender is an entirely manmade phenomenon. Why dont we celebrate the changing of the seasons? O could get on board with that. What about celebrating the procession fo comets etc. These are genuinely exciting and meaningful events

Anyone feel the same

Actually, I marked New Year's with a quick prayer that 2014 would be a great year. There's nothing like a bit of optimism to get things started on the right track.

I fell asleep early and somehow slept through the fireworks my neighbor did and my dogs barking at it. I guess that tells you how I feel about celebrating New Years.

I wouldn't call it refusing but what I usually do on New Year's Eve is stay home and go to sleep early like I usually do.

What else would I do? I don't drink or have sex or care about social gatherings.

Even if I wanted to (I don't) I don't have anyone to do anything with.

I wouldn't say I really refuse, but I don't really make a big thing of it either. This year I just had a couple beers with my dad and his friend, while listening to classic rock.

To me it's an excuse to eat delicious snacks and little else. I stay up until midnight most nights, anyway.

Yeah, binaryodes, I do feel the same. I haven't celebrated New Year for some years now, which is due to my 2010/2011 transition having been very, very strenuous, and I haven't felt like celebrating it ever since.

I agree that it's a date of very little meteorological/astronomical significance. Makes more sense to me to celebrate solstices or equinoxes.

I consider it the single dumbest, most pointless holiday and wonder why the first day of the month is considered the second biggest holiday of the year where I live. Why? At least Christmas had a lot going for it but New Years is just another changing of the calendar.

I did not refuse to participate; it's just that the other participants did not invite me to their celebrations.

You'd think that, me living alone and having no friends or family members nearby, I'd be the last person to celebrate New Year's Day. Even though I don't go out, I do stay home and drink beer or champagne if I have it. I've always looked at the New Year as saying F.U. to the old one which sucked.

i actually call "birthdays" "new years" because it is YOUR new year. you can only be born once.

Yes! Thank you for making me feel normal. I deliberately avoided all forms of celebration. Either I was just over the socialising or people needing any excuse in which to get wasted ( this country really has a drinking problem) or I just felt like there's no reason to celebrate the first day of the new year. All these delusion statements about 2014 being this really great year for people did my head in too. How are they supposed to know? Do people have to tell themselves that so they can bear living through another year?

I did accept a glass of scotch from my housemate though. But I basically just watched my current fav sci-fi, Revolution and then went to bed.

Unfortunately the gig I went to the next day was specifically a New Year's Day show so I was yet again surrounded by the celebrations and excessive drinking.

No, I had a good time on New Years. I read my new book until a few minutes 'till midnight when my mum came home and we counted down to New years and then toasted with sweet wine. We hugged and watched the New Years celebration on T.V for about 10, 15 minutes until the flashing lights and noise started to give me a headache and I kept drinking wine until I had a nice buzz. Then I went back to my room to read and my mum fell asleep.

Perhaps I should refuse to celebrate it next year. It's not like I'll be invited to a party or going somewhere. I'm going to act like Mid-60s male Mod no matter what year it is, anyways. I think this past New Year's Eve was the straw that broke the camel's back, anyways. I ran out onto the sidewalk on my side of the street wearing a Kinks T-Shirt, yelling "Happy New Year! I'm not changing for no one! I'm going to die Kinks Fan! Mod Power!" I walked up to three 14 year old's doing an encore of those same sentences. I was high on an energy drink. If New Years isn't my thing, I should skip the energy drink and go to bed around 9 like my two best friends did.