new year's eve..

again, same as last year, I am wondering (personally for last 3 years) what make people keen on celebrating the new year's eve. Taking into account the year end is celebrated based on Gregorian calendar system, which basically does not have included celebrations like equinox or solstice which are coming from the natural bases, or moon phases. Like this, the only power I can feel are the people in accounting trying to stress me about pending items on their accounts which need to be cleared before the year end, so their year end accounting information would be without any black stain. The second power man can feel is people rushing in shops to buy everything for the celebration (what kind of celebration? what do we celebrate here?), enough alcohol and booze so everybody could easily erase their memories for the past year and come clear (with a headache) to new year.
No, this is not a true celebration like birthday, when we are celebrating the day of our birth. This is not like equinox when we can celebrate the universe's wonders, nor solstice which brings us closer to nature. I apologize if I will offend somebody, but new year's eve does not bring to my soul, heart, mind enough (justified) reasons to celebrate (I might be stupid, but still I can't see what we celebrate here).
As any other day in the year, in month, in week, I go to bed at normal sleeping hour and wake up early in the morning with the sun shine, to enjoy the next day. Does not matter that the rush around me changed the numbers in the year date. OK, since now I will not write 2010 but 2011 (though I might have problems with that at the beginning till I will get used my hands writing 2011).
Counting the number of people reading this post (you can count your fingers on your own hands and you will reach higher number than that) I am aware that my boycott against year's end celebration is absolutely useless here, but apart that, nowadays rituals (not all of them) do not fill me with joy and excitement, but rather filth and abhorrence. I know that in each century, people tend to think that the centuries before were at higher cultural point and that the culture 'now' is degraded. Reading Ortega y Gasset's books and some German thinkers lead you to a point where a man decides whether this is truly a century of loath and misery. Obviously, it is not, our time brings us many ideas and freedom we could not imagine having in the past times, the only question which stays opened is how we will proceed with this freedom, how we will behave so at the end of the day we can look in the mirror and not feel ashamed?