anyone feeling a bit guilty about celebrating tonight

[Publius Ovidius]

I do not feel in the mood at all to "celebrate" the new year, especially with the Asian Crisis so close in our minds

anyone else feel the same?

 

[Wardy]

Will not be going out. I am staying in with a bottle of wine and NSC.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

mee too

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Absolutely. But you still have to remember and celebrate the good in the world - I've been moved by the scale of cash donations I've seen. Nigh on every shop I was in today had a rapidly filling bucket. If nothing else, I'll be celebrating the goodwill of people in times like these.

 

[kevinsmith]

For those of you who are going out tonight, think about those in Asia at midnight

 

[Turkey]

One should always be drunk. That's the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.

Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.

And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: "It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please."

 

[Gullet]

Agree with your sentiments but death and disaster are with us on a daily basis, we can't put our lives on hold every time something bad happens, otherwise you could say that it will be wrong to celebrate if we score tomorrow. Enjoy yourself while you can, no-one will think any less of you.
Don't mean to sound callous in any way.

 

[Happy Seagull]

If we didn't go out everytime something bad happened, we'd be prisoners in our own homes

I'll raise a glass in remembrance of the people who lost their lives. And in hope of a better future for those that survived.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I wasn't attempting to be overtly pious here, It just struck me seeing that poor chap hanging on to a palm tree whist people were surging past in the wave, that this was not some general run of the mill disaster.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Also how many people were at the Withdean on Sept 11th? Pretty much a sell out if i remember.

 

[Citrus]

Also how many people were at the Withdean on Sept 11th? Pretty much a sell out if i remember.

I was, however people did not know anything about the scale of the attacks then. It was still an 'accident' then. If people had known that it was a terrorist attack and that thousands had died, it may have been a different story.

I probably would have gone anyway though. What's the point in punishing yourself if you've done nothing wrong? Or am I missing the point?

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I remember calling up the club that afternoon to see if the game was still on. Seems like a long time ago now.

Go out and have a drink tonight, and remember no matter how down / shitty we feel, our problems really are insignificant compared to those in SE Asia.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

What's the point in punishing yourself if you've done nothing wrong? Or am I missing the point?

No, you're not.

Why should anyone feel guilty about celebrating New Year's Eve? What a ridiculous notion.

 

[Citrus]

Go out and have a drink tonight, and remember no matter how down / shitty we feel, our problems really are insignificant compared to those in SE Asia.

Well said.

 

[bhaexpress]

I am staying in as this has ended as a very bad year for me, far worse than last year. The Asian tragedy makes it even worse as I can'tr feel sorry for myself safe in the knowledge that there are many so much worse off than me.

 

[Citrus]

Imagine that.

 

[Citrus]

 

[dougdeep]

I'll be on here as usual.(Now everyone will go out)

 

[Happy Seagull]

I'll be on here as usual.(Now everyone will go out)

On my way now

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Imagine that.

Nature's power is incredible. Not sure I'd be standing around taking pictures though...