New Year Dread

Mike Meyer
3 min readDec 27, 2023

The happiness is gone

I realized the day after Christmas that the pleasure of the new year and the progression of seasons is no longer the same. As you get older, there is pleasure in moving from the Holiday Season to Spring, Summer, and Fall, each with its holidays and traditions.

The American Christmas can become tiring, but as you age, it regains some of its pleasure as a marker for another year. Once the…

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/