New Year Dread
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…