Hate the pressure of New Year’s Eve? This writer does too, which is why you’ll find her sitting out the celebrations in favour of some self-care.
Here’s why: come 31 December, I can feel time slipping through my fingers like sand. And I find it all too disconcerting.Time is the Houdini of the metaphysical world; it escapes through the backdoor of our lives, although we never really felt it enter. We never really measure time because, if we did, we wouldn’t all be so guilty of wasting it.
The year end seems, to me, to signify a mass orgy of hopes, dreams and endings. Yet modern life inevitably goes on the next morning.showed a 40% increase of suicide risk on New Year’s Day, across the general population. Researchers concluded that this may be due to the fact that the day represents “the point of transition between one time period and another”.
Hate New Year’s Eve: “I’d be OK if this feeling of time running away was just self-reflective. But New Year’s Eve comes its own sense of urgency”
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