2019 is a year filled with happiness, surprises, and
heartbreaks. In short, 2019 left me in mixed emotions.
A New Year is a blossom in our life
and it is worth celebrating the day. It is a simple and known fact that January
1 is fabulously celebrated as the greatest and most important day all across
the world. This day is considered as a day filled with great fun and
enthusiasm. New Year is a special day for each person because it is time for
welcoming another year, enjoying with family and friends, having fun and taking
resolutions for the upcoming year.
Many
Filipino people unite on New Year’s Eve, which is on December 31, to celebrate
a midnight meal known as the Media Noche. It is also common to stay
awake to greet the coming of the New Year. New Year’s Day is also characterized
by Filipinos lighting fireworks and making a lot of noise to drive away evil
spirits. This belief originated from the Chinese.
The
elderly encourage children to jump at the stroke of midnight so that they would
grow up tall. Many people display 12 circular fruits and wear clothing with
polka dots to symbolize money. It is also popular practice to open all the
doors and windows at the stroke of midnight to let in the good luck. Many
Filipino families also read the Christian bible and attend a church midnight
mass. It is common for many Filipinos to blend religion and superstition in
celebrating New Year’s Day.
I'm great at making New Year's resolutions. I'm also great at forgetting about them. This is probably because of my total lack of discipline, which…I'm working on. But I think it's also because the entire culture of New Year's resolutions encourages improvements that are so vague as to be useless. That’s why changing myself doesn’t necessarily depends on me wanting to change just because I want to, I change because the experiences that I gain makes me change.
