Happy New Year! This is, so to speak, the only time of the year, when each and every one of us robotically attempts to make some sense of the year passing by and looks at the coming one with eyes filled with new hopes and wishes. And, what a relief for us, when, in retrospect, we dare to say that the year slipping away was not spent in vain. For this reason, it deems important for us to better set priorities for the year ahead and give it our right arm to carry out, at least, most of our good plans. Also, I am sure that each of us has something interesting to share with the rest from the last year. In fact, I have something to tell you…
The thing is I had quite a weird celebration of this New Year. Indeed it was my first time to “celebrate” this New Year in the remotest northeastern town of Karakol. Guess what? All alone. It is not to say that I am so passionate about New Year celebration, but rather the way I experienced it for the past two days has impressed me way more.
As a matter of fact, a couple of days prior to the 31 December 2008 by some weird mistake my head was occupied with a thought that this Tuesday was the last day of the month, but not Wednesday - the actual day. These days I did not really mingle with other folks here and mostly stayed at home. Therefore, it becomes clear why I mixed up the dates. Frankly speaking, I even thought that my cell phone and even watch went wrong inadvertently. Besides, it can also be partially explained by the fact that I did not attach much meaning to this New Year’s celebration.
As a result, on 30 December I finally went out in the evening, went to a local store and bought up a load of junk food and soft drinks. That night even the store was so replete with customers that it sort of double assured me that it was the 31 December. To make the matters even much worse, my apartment was cut off power that night. Thus, by the light of my candle I had my “New Year dinner” and went outside close to midnight to see the fireworks. Guess what? To my surprise, I saw neither the sky bursting with fireworks, nor neighbors shouting out New Year toasts. So I thought to myself that it might be the way the New Year eve looks like in Karakol mistakenly and went home to sleep.
The next morning I woke up in a cold room still with no electric power, when I finally figured out that it is, in fact, the last day of the year. However, that day I was in a weird state of feelings because most of my New Year joy and feelings have I “spent” the day before. Nevertheless, I witnessed the sky filled with colored lights and air with the laughter of kids, of sincere childish New Year joy.
Anyways, now I dare to say that for the first time in my life I had two New Year days - the days of confusion, surprise and mixed feelings. Also, I have electric power back to my apartment. After all, all is well that ends well and may the year coming in be the year of peace and prosperity for all of us. I would be more than interested in hearing your stories of New Year celebration and not only…
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