NEW YEAR`S MANIA
Silviya Madina
It is December again and already the festively sensation and holiday attitude are all around us. The beauty and brilliance of New Year`s Eve are accompanied by monthly preparation and euphoria. Everyone is affected by feelings of happiness and joy. But at the same time a lot of questions rise up in our mind: “Where can I celebrate the New Year`s Eve?”; “Which company to prefer for the holiday?”; “Which offer to choose- going to club or to a secluded mountain villa?” and so on.
All the magazines, newspapers, Internet, the posters on the streets are flooding us with offers for the holiday night, some of which are to amazingly high prices. It turns to be even cheaper to rent one whole villa for the same money, which you will spend for one cover for a club in the capital.
Rivers of money are spending for superfluous brilliance and luxury for the New Year`s Eve, which many people can’t clearly remember the other morning.
All the stores are packed with goods. This is also the best moment for promotional mobile tariffs, plans and offers, which are attacking us from everywhere. People often even forget what they were going to buy, because the offers are numerous and extremely varied. The supermarkets and the stores for techniques are so crowded that you need to wait for hours in the line to the cash register. The same is the situation to all the other markets, especially to those where you can buy a Christmas tree, which will exalt your New Year’s spirits.
The atmosphere in the hairdresser’s and the beauty studios is not less strained and stressful. You should book an appointment a month ago there because the coquetry for the New Year’s Eve seized not only you but also all the other ladies and gentlemen.
The dressmaking and tailoring ateliers and the fashion houses can’t stand up to the tempo of their orders, because the dead line for all of them is 30 December. This entire stressful atmosphere, full of high tension and panic, can be avoided if you come in succession of patience in advance and plan your engagements at the beginning of the month. In this way the preparation for the holiday will not make you nervous but even it will bring you happiness and it’s going to be amusing.
It appears that nowadays the romance and coziness of New Year’s Eve are replaced by excessive pomposity and gloss. Beautiful lights, advertisements and promotional signs are shining from everywhere. The stores and restaurants are submerged with Christmas decorations. This beautiful and fulgent picture brings to the foreground the crazy shopping people who are hurrying up to buy presents for family and friends. The mania enchanted everyone and the holiday spirit is floating in the air all around.
People said that the real holiday is the preparation for it, but all the sham and the mania, which seized everyone before New Year’s Eve, smirch and overexpose the real face of this wonderful, full of charm and alluring spirit, holiday.
Pictures:
1. - 2. The shopping for the winter holidays is so intensive, that the stores and streets are packed of people, who are seized by the New Year’s mania.
3. The presents are a constant part of Christmas and New Year holidays.
4 - 6. The brilliance of New Year’s Eve.
