Happy New Year

I did not want to see workers today. I knew if I managed not to see them I would not have to say stupid “Happy New Year” crap. It will become weird to say that word in second week of a year.

There are 2 reasons I did not want to say the word. One is that I was not allowed to talk to them under our company’s unspoken rule. This is a strange company which I work for, my parents business. Only things I am allowed to say to them are “Good morning” and “Goodbye”. But it is also strange not to say “Happy New Year” to them when a new year just started. Last year I managed not to say the word to them due to the forming climbing roses job kept me so busy sitting in one green house for a month. This year it seems I managed again. And you cannot say “Happy New Year” on second week of a year. This is probably my own rule, but that works. So I do not have to say the word to them again this year.

The other reason I do not want to say “Happy New Year” to anyone is that I really do not think changing the year won’t turn over your life suddenly happier. The New Year’s Day is just a sequel to the day before. So this year some people said to me “Happy New Year”. You may think I thought “what the hell you are saying. Nothing has been changed except for Jesus’s age”. That’s practically No. I just couldn’t understand what they were on about. “New Year Day” shit does not run in my blood. It took me a while to remember the Japanese, or world’s, ritual to say the word. I even told one guy that “nothing is happy or unhappy”. He happened to be my in-law brother. He did not seem to understand it.

Anyway, I could avoid saying “Happy New Year”. That makes me “Happy” It is ironic.