Seriously....What do you feel on what's called New Year's day?

We’re going to visit friends and their brand-spanking-new baby in the morning, then it’s off to my in-laws house for lunch in the afternoon.

What do I “feel”? Seriously?! ... Nothing much different than any other day.

I like to think of it as a day of letting go of the past and moving foward. So I guess the feeling is hopeful.

It has the symbolism you give it. This new year is symbolic for me because at this time last year I knew the coming year was going to be long and hard. Today I say good riddance to that. I know 2012 is going to be a blast.

Usually just a normal day for me.

It is a finish line and a starting gate.

It’s a day off, one to go out and get some fresh air, relax, may be go see a movie. Rest up for the coming year.

I agree with @Pandora. I just spent today cleaning all my old paperwork from school and sorting out old books. Four big bags of rubbish…all that stress and sleepless nights. :P

A seriously hideous hangover.

@KateTheGreat I’ll hold your hair if you get sick!

I feel a little melancholy, a little hopeful. I kind of mourn the passing of time, but hope for better times (or continuing good times, depending on the year) ahead.

Honestly, it brings about a dilemma. I’m hopeful that this new year will bring some amazing memories. What gets me though is that I never come through on the goals I set, which really bums me out. The people who accomplish goals and work at them love New Years, I am guessing the people who don’t set any or never come through on them, feel like the way I feel, that its just another day.

New years is the one “holiday” that baffles me as to why it’s being celebrated. It just seems pointless. Tomorrow I’m going to be grumpy thanks to jerkwads setting off fireworks, fire crackers, yelling silly phrases that half to do with the new year, counting down to the new year, and shooting guns randomly as I attempt to catch some zzz’s. Well, hope you enjoy it my fellow jellies because I certainly will. This has to be the most annoying holiday after Christmas.

Sincerely,

The Grinch, Ebeneezer Scrooge, and King Pariah

It is definitely just another day for me and right now I am poorly so I am hoping to find an open shop that will sell some kind of cold/flu medicine and pain killers! For me, as soon as Boxing Day is over so irate the festivities. I hate to see Christmas decorations and here Cheistmas music past then and, whilst I am glad for any time off work, I look forward to getting back to a normal routine.

I love a parade. and always make cabbage and black eye peas on New Years.
There is a Towns Van Sant tribute here every Jan 1st

It’s just a day off work to me. And a sense of relief that the holidays are over until next year.

It’s a day for taking stock, cleaning house, and redefining goals. I guess my mood is more or less hopeful depending on my situation at the time. I used to set myself a lot of self=improvement goals. Sort of a Jay Gatsby type list.
(http://www.planetebook.com/The-Great-Gatsby.asp) see page 184–185
Of course now that list includes things like “Learn Adobe Illustrator”
I think it’s helpful to stop and reflect on your life and renew commitments to things you think are important and also to give yourself credit for the things you’ve done.
Hell, sometimes just surviving a year is an accomplishment! And sometimes it seems like you are the only one giving yourself a pat on the back for what you’ve done right.
Ringing in the New Year doesn’t really give me much of a feeling at all though. I guess it’s just a way of marking out the fact that for that moment we are all alive together. Reminds me of a poem I like.
http://poemhunter.com/poem/alive-together/

The poem has a typo- the word pop should be Pope

I feel… ready.

MilkyWay Ready for what? Anything? As in, bring it on!!!

Yep. :)
As in, I’m gonna kick yo ass, or, You wanna piece of me? or as you said, Bring it!

MilkyWay My, but you are a feisty girl! I like that.

Contentment, good fortune and a little surprise that I’ve made this far in the way I have. If you’d have asked me at 20yrs old where I’d be at 45yrs old, I wouldn’t have imagined this joy and continued drive for experiences.

It makes me feel hopeful for the coming days, weeks, year. I like to think of it as a fresh start.

Well, I have to make myself think about it or it’s just another day. I did take a moment to do that today, and realized that I can mark my life off in decades…which is when I posted that question.

It’s mostly just another day. I like the long weekend and not having to get up early for a few days, but then my husband is home and that can be a challenge…

Mmm… I was tired. Like every other day.
I was angry.
I was regretting the night before… Haha.

It’s really just another day.
I don’t believe in “New Year’s Resolutions”. Why wait until January 1st?