After The New Year Comes...End of Christmas Break

Yes, 2011 has started. I'd like to share with you two excerpts from two songs. Theyre both about the new year. however, what id like you to realize, is the two ways one should look at the new year.
Death Cab does an amazing job of putting into perspective the fact that the new year is just another day. whats the point in celebrating the fact that we dont change? We dress up, we get special drinks, we have special traditions, we make resolutions that we break within a week. We believe in so mch hope for the news year, but by the time a month has gone by we forget everything. We no longer have the hope we did a mid that one night. We get beat down by the economy, politics, family issues, broken dreams, broken relationships, everything. Lets try to break that one New Years tradition that everyone so promptly follows.
The New Year- Death Cab for Cutie

So this is the new year.
And i don't feel any different.
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogs bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then i could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back.

There'd be no distance that could hold us back [x2]

So this is the new year [x4]
If you listen to the whole song of Parachute's then you may be discouraged. However, they do a great job in their chorus at the end. He doesnt just talk about the one night that we all celebrate. He recognizes the 364 other days that we have to keep the faith. Keep the hope. Love exists in hope.
The New Year- Parachute

End Chorus--

But was it really that bad     (This past year)
And could it be better
Well I don't know, but with you I still have hope
That this, could be, oh my year

(We have) Three hundred and sixty four more days
One million chances left to find you and to see your face
Making light out of my shadows
Finally get to zero and maybe we'll both say (x2)

Oh what a way to start the new year