NYE

Last year I celebrated NYE in Japan with K and his friends. It was fun but anti-climatic. This year, I dragged myself up to Seoul to celebrate with some other ETAs and to meet up with M, a college friend who was visiting Korea. It was fun, but again, anti-climatic. I don't know but I've come to feel like NYE is the most over-hyped thing ever, yet it's always the biggest let down. I mean I had fun in Seoul but it never feels like how it's supposed to feel, you know? Like you're having the best party of your friggin' life! And it never, ever feels that way.

Anyway, I missed my favorite part of NYE two years in a row-watching TV. I know, lame, but that is what I'd usually do in years past to celebrate. And despite feeling slightly depressed being at home watching people have fun on TV instead of actually partaking in such festivities myself, I really enjoy the periodic times in the broadcast when they'll show people celebrating all over the world. It's so fun to see all the different countries and the different ways people celebrate the same holiday.

I'm gonna get all corny/sentimental here, so be forewarned: It's my favorite part because it's so great to see everyone, all over the world, sharing the same moment. It's my favorite part because it's so great to see all the different smiling faces and feel like I'm part of something bigger than my Korean-American identity, something global and special.

Oh and I've decided against doing the whole NY resolutions. I always forget them after like a week, and I usually do the same ones, like "Exercise more," "Be a better person," blah blah blah. And the thing is, I should do those things because I really want to do them and not to fulfill something that I mumbled last-minute on NYE.