A happy New Year to my dearest girl; a new year must be a different year, and if the old one has kept us apart, perhaps the new year, with miraculous forces, will throw us together. Throw, throw, New Year!
Franz Kafka, 1912.
Embrace the sentimental, sad, and existential side of NYE and you can enjoy it.
Life is about learning to dance, even if there is only rubble under your feet and only minutes left on the clock