Or is it just another holiday?

Don't particularly care for the song. The actual day is nice. Don't have anything planned, though.

I don't like New Years Day, it's overhyped and the fireworks (in The Netherlands at least) is so annoying. Dumb ass people playing with explosives is asking for trouble, which happens every year: hospitals overloaded and eye doctors calling for a ban on fireworks. Which thankfully starts next year. Can't wait for this dumb ass tradition of sending extra CO2 into the atmosphere while scaring animals and killing eachother is over.

Edit: oh and the song is kind of *ss

Edited December 31, 2025Dec 31 by MonsterFandom

No, it the day that makes me realize the time passed so fast, can't believe we're more close to 2050 than 2000 now

Day I'm not crazy about. Song is immaculate

no, like open the malls open the grocery stores what the eff!!!

No, I'm usually hungover af

I like the song!
The day is a day just like any other for me except businesses are closed.

Edited December 31, 2025Dec 31 by Cole

No, I don't like New Year's Day. And it's not because I'm trying to be edgy or negative for the sake of it. I genuinely don't like it, and the reason is simple. New Year's Day, just like any other day, is another day of being alive. And for me, being alive mostly means ongoing effort, discomfort, and suffering wrapped in rituals that pretend something meaningful just happened.

People act like January 1st is fundamentally different from December 31st. Like something resets overnight. Like the calendar flipping actually changes anything real. But it doesn't. You wake up with the same body, the same brain, the same problems, the same patterns, the same limits. Nothing clears. Nothing refreshes. Nothing starts over. Time just keeps going, and you're still stuck inside yourself.

What makes New Year's Day worse than an average day is the expectation that you're supposed to feel something. Hope. Motivation. Gratitude. Optimism. You're supposed to feel like this year is different somehow. And when you don't, when you wake up and feel exactly the same heaviness and exhaustion you felt before, it adds another layer to the suffering. Now you're not just tired or empty or numb, you're also out of sync with the collective mood. Everyone else is celebrating, and you're failing to participate correctly.

The whole idea of a fresh start is mostly nonsense. A fresh start only exists if something actually changes. A different environment. A different internal structure. A real shift in circumstances. A date on a calendar doesn't do that. You don't get a clean slate just because the Earth completed another loop around the sun. You bring everything with you. Your habits, your fears, your regrets, your unresolved stuff, your biology. It all comes along for the ride.

I wake up on New Year's Day and immediately the same demands are there. Hunger. Thirst. Fatigue. Bodily discomfort. The body already needs maintenance before the day even begins. Before you've had a single meaningful thought about the so called new year, you're already managing decay. Eating so you don't feel worse. Sleeping so you can function. Stretching or moving so things don't stiffen up. This is not symbolic. This is mechanical.

Then the mind kicks in. Thoughts you didn't ask for. Memories that surface randomly. Anxiety about the future that does not care what date it is. The mind doesn't respect holidays. It doesn't pause for reflection unless you force it to, and even then it tends to wander back to the same loops it always runs. New Year's Day doesn't interrupt that. It just highlights it.

Most of life is maintenance. That's something people don't like to admit. You eat so you don't starve. You work so you don't lose shelter. You clean so entropy doesn't take over your space. You exercise so your body doesn't fall apart too fast. You manage relationships so they don't collapse. You manage your emotions so they don't overwhelm you. None of that stops on New Year's Day. If anything, it feels heavier because you're told it should feel meaningful.

Then there are the resolutions. People act like willpower alone can override years of conditioning, trauma, biology, and circumstance. This year I'll be different. Different how, exactly? With the same nervous system? The same coping mechanisms? The same environment? Most resolutions fail not because people are lazy or weak, but because the premise is flawed. Humans are not blank slates that can be rewritten by motivation alone.

What usually happens is people imagine an improved version of themselves on New Year's Day, then spend the year slowly realizing they're still the same person, just older and more tired. That gap between expectation and reality is its own kind of suffering. New Year's Day helps create that gap.

There's also something unsettling about how the day frames time. Another year gone. Another year ahead. The implication is that time is running out and you should be doing more with it. As if life were a productivity challenge. As if your existence needs to justify itself before it ends. I don't find that inspiring. I find it exhausting.

Most days are not milestones. Most days are not meaningful. Most days are just days you get through. You wake up, you do what you have to do, you distract yourself when you can, you manage discomfort, and then you go to sleep if you're lucky. New Year's Day doesn't change that. It just pretends to.

I also hate the forced reflection. How was your year? That question assumes a year is a coherent thing. For me, it's just a blur of moments. Some better, some worse, most forgettable. We compress twelve months into a few highlights and lowlights and ignore the endless hours of boredom, anxiety, numbness, and quiet despair. But that ignored part is most of life.

When I look back honestly, I don't see growth arcs or redemption stories. I see repetition. Cycles. Effort followed by burnout. Hope followed by disappointment. Brief relief followed by the same underlying issues resurfacing. Relief is not happiness. It's just suffering turned down temporarily.

New Year's Day turns that into a narrative anyway. It insists that continuity is progress and that survival equals success.

And then there's the comparison aspect. Online especially. Everyone posting achievements, transformations, trips, engagements, personal growth stories. Even if you know it's curated, it still hits. You still measure yourself. You still notice where you feel stuck or behind or unchanged. Suffering is already isolating. New Year's Day makes it worse by suggesting everyone else is moving forward together.

What bothers me most is how New Year's Day treats suffering as something that belongs to the past. As if pain expires at midnight. As if grief, illness, depression, loneliness, uncertainty all politely stay behind when the fireworks go off. That idea isn't just wrong, it's cruel. It erases people whose suffering is ongoing, structural, or invisible.

For a lot of people, January 1st is not a celebration. It's a reminder that they survived another year without things improving. Or that they're entering another year with the same problems and less energy to deal with them.

There's a kind of cultural dishonesty baked into the day. The assumption that life is supposed to be enjoyed by default, and if you're not enjoying it, the issue is your mindset. Smile more. Be grateful. Be positive. Set goals. Manifest better outcomes. New Year's Day is basically that ideology condensed into a single date.

I'm not saying life has no good moments. I'm saying the good is fragile and temporary and usually comes with a cost. Pleasure fades. Relationships change or end. Health declines. Meaning has to be rebuilt constantly, and even then it's unstable. None of that disappears because the year number changes.

I don't actively hate New Year's Day. I don't rage about it. I just don't believe in it. To me, it's another morning where I wake up with a body that needs managing and a mind that needs negotiating. Another day where the goal is simply not to make things worse. Another day of looking for small moments of relief or distraction, knowing they won't last.

If anything, New Year's Day reminds me how relentless time is. You don't get to pause. You don't get to opt out. Whether you feel ready or not, another year is added to the count, another layer of wear settles in, and the expectations keep coming.

So no, I don't like New Year's Day. Not because it's especially bad, but because it's not special at all. It's another day of suffering in a long chain of days that require effort just to endure. The celebration fades, the posts stop, the resolutions dissolve, and you're left with the same task you've always had. Existing, moment by moment, without any guarantee that it will feel worthwhile.

For some people, that's something to celebrate. For me, it's just continuity. The calendar keeps moving, whether or not anything actually gets better.

The song is cute, somewhere in the middle of rep for me quality wise.

Day is usually just for me to recover from the post-nye hangover.

I typically get very sad during the holidays

This is unpopular but it's my favorite holiday. I love the vibe of everyone getting ready to welcome in the new year and I like that it's something that's celebrated worldwide across all cultures.

I don't really celebrate it but at least it's better than Christmas which I actively dislike

No, it's probably the most depressing day of the year imo? The preceding holiday season and all the preparations are keeping me on a high all December, so the comedown on January 1st hits hard. The full year ahead suddenly seems like a challenge to tackle, plus it's lowkey unnerving that you don't know what it's going to bring. I know that can be applied to any random day of the year, but at least you forget about all that during the Christmas season.

Yes, the freshest day tbh.

Just a day for me. I do have some major financial goals that I want to accomplish in 2026, so will just be a day to reset and refocus.

Used to love it as a child because I would celebrate it with family and relatives at a big table together. But then we stopped doing this and as I get older I feel more and more indifferent

Edited December 31, 2025Dec 31 by illia

It's on reputation, so obviously I love it!

I hate december 25 and january 1st since nothing's open and you can't go anywhere and it just feels sad another year went by so fast... idk.

something i feel pressure to celebrate these days like why do i have to be joyful and happy these specific 2 days??

Just another holiday...

I like the song and the day

I hate days when the entire world is on sleep/lazy mode and everyone is expected to sleep until 2pm and everything non essential is closed. Jan 1 is one of them and Dec 25 is the other one. It's depressive and miserable.

No it's always my recovering day

I love it. I drank so much NYEs last night that i blacked out fell asleep before midnight

As for thr song, its the only reason i rate the album an 8/10 instead of a 10/10