Holiday Analysis

New Years is a holiday celebrated by most Americans. The end of one year and beginning of a new year is celebrated. The reason people celebrate new years is because it is a time to start over and make up for your previous mistakes in the past year. I think that the messages sent are that it is a new year for new things and another year that you survived. I think new years is meaningful because it is a new year of your life and everyday should be meaningful. Some of the things that are usually done on new years are: the ball dropping in time square, fireworks, people drinking and partying. I guess the ball dropping is sort of meaningful to some people because it only happen once a year and its to show the new year that everyone is celebrating at the same time. I don't think that fireworks are meaningful or at least to my life. I haven't seen fireworks on new years or 4th of july in years. To me it is a waste of time to just watch decorations shot up into the sky. I think that the usual custom of people partying and drinking on new years eve can be meaningful to some people because they may be having fun and celebrating the past year that they have finished and the start of the new year. I don't think that there are really and contradictions on new years except for maybe starting it off the same as every other year.