New Year’s Eve and the Mass Self-Punishment Program
Well, it’s the end of another year, and people everywhere are getting together to commiserate with friends, drinking themselves into oblivion to forget their inner knowldege that they’ve squandered yet another year through many thousands of hours of texting, Facebook, and watching the hundreds of channels on their television sets. Then as the new year arrives, they put on funny hats and toot horns, now glad to see the end of this wasted year.
In the realization that they messed up yet another year, millions of other people are so laden with guilt that they scramble down to Times Square, New York City, in droves, prepared to punish themselves for ten or more hours by standing cheek-to-jowl with millions of others in the cold, with no way to relieve themselves other than within the Pampers they are wearing. And when the ball descends, they cheer, “Out with the old; in with the new,” finally happy now that this miserable year has ended. Of course, next year will have to be better—it can’t be worse considering the new resolutions they have made!
©Copyright 2016 by Robert Chuckrow