Sad New Year!

"Happy New Year!" What is there to be 'Happy' about? Is it because I survived one more year and lived some more than others who died during the year? Is it because I didn't meet with an accident and spend my New Year's Eve on a hospital bed, crying in pain like some others
did? Or is it because I wasn't molested and groped publicly? Yes, all these didn't happen to me. Am glad about it. But there were more people who suffered than enjoyed the coming of the new year. Some were in jail, some in hospitals, some being robbed, raped, cheated, assaulted or killed, while some were mourning for the loss of their loved ones.
I think only a few had a reason to be happy. But then, that happens everyday. Everyday, something bad and something good happens, and everyday, some laugh and some mourn.
I think any kind of an annual celebration is really overrated. If it happens every day or week or month or year, it's not that special.
Something like a promotion, buying a new vehicle or house, beginning of a new relationship, and happy events that rarely happen or happy events that happen unexpectedly are what need to be celebrated.
I don't think that there should be a specific day allotted to being happy, where people are 'expected' to be compulsorily happy. Because one can't be happy on demand. Believe me if we could be happy on demand, every single person would've been a Buddha. Just because
everyone's laughing doesn't make it necessary for you to grin when you don't wish to.
One should celebrate because one is happy. And not because the world expects you to be happy. This New Year's Eve wasn't happy for me. But I'm sure the next time I trek will be a happy day for me. :-)