Here's Why You Shouldn't Kiss At Midnight on New Year's Eve
Like everything else associated with celebrating New Year's Eve, the pressure to kiss someone at midnight is completely arbitrary. The arguments in favour of said midnight smooch are shady, at best.
Consulting the highest authority (the Wikipedia page for "kissing traditions" and some book called the Encyclopedia of Superstitions), the origins of the New Year's kiss have something to do with ancient Romans, and a superstition that anyone who neglects to snag a NYE kiss is destined for an entire year of loneliness. If you're single at 11:56 p.m. on Dec. 31, it very much feels like the Race Is On to find someone willing to put their mouth on your mouth for a fleeting moment as one year becomes the next.
Here's the thing, though. Neither the ancient Romans ? in all their vast wisdom ? nor pointless superstition can possibly control for the thing that will absolutely, every single time, without fail, ruin even the best of New Year's kisses: Men. A kiss at only one of the 365 midnights we're allotted each year is not going to bind someone to you for an entire year. Kissing a rando with sugar-champagne breath isn't going to ward off loneliness ? it's only going to make you wish you hadn't left your mints in the big handbag you opted not to carry that night. If men can't even find it within themselves to text you back in a reasonable timeframe, there is no way they're going to follow through because of something as hollow as superstition.
For years now, I've actively avoided a midnight kiss on NYE, and I would urge you to do the same. My own tradition was admittedly born out of some hedonistic combination of skepticism and cynicism, but as far as I've found, I've been no more lonely in the years I haven't kissed than I was in the years I have. At the stroke of midnight on years I kept my lips to myself, I didn't feel my body shut down and become impervious to the feeling of human touch. Maybe if the superstition worked more like a princess and the frog situation, and every man who was kissed at midnight on New Year's Eve magically became Good, I would buy back into this foolishness. But I'd much rather be lonely by choice (i.e. deciding not to kiss) than feel like one year is going to be drastically better than another, just because I agreed to let some troll lay one on me in between champagne toasts.
And let's say you've somehow managed to find yourself in a more-or-less functioning, happy relationship come December. What if you and your perfect boyfriend break up in June? There's no undoing the fact that you came into this year with his face pressed up against yours, and you're unlikely to forget about that come next NYE. Like it or not, the memories of how you spend your New Year's Eves stick, and you don't want to get caught in a competition to out-happy yourself come next year. It's not healthy!
This is a rare opportunity to manufacture a good and happy memory for yourself!
Let's also consider the context in which the ancient Romans allegedly came up with this tomfoolery. According to PBS, women in those days were valued mainly for two things: being wives and mothers. So then it makes sense the Romans would champion midnight kisses under the guise of A Year of "Romance" (read: you'll get married and start pumping out tiny Roman babies). Fine with me if your number one priority for the new year is romance, but also, why not aim for something more fun and exciting?
If you have to celebrate the tiny amount of space between two years on the calendar, celebrate it doing something you'll want to remember. This is a rare opportunity to manufacture a good and happy memory for yourself. Even on the December thirty-firsts when I have had a boyfriend, I avoid a midnight smooch in favour of doing something better.
Giphy/Warner Bros.Instead of buying into a superstition invented by a bunch of Roman fuckboys, why not invent your own? The thinking behind the kiss tradition is that a kiss at midnight would bring a year filled with romance, yes? Just reverse engineer that line of thinking, and you can usher in whatever kind of good omen you want. Do you want to focus on friendships in the new year? Then spend midnight surrounded by friends! Do you want to make a shit ton of money in 2017? Shower £5 notes on yourself when midnight comes! Make your own NYE tradition, is what I'm saying, instead of buying into one that's incredibly lame.
Making a personal decision to skip a kiss and do something better (literally, just anything at all) isn't exactly an act of radical feminism, but hey! It's a start. It's a good way to come kicking and screaming into the year that will see the inauguration of a US president who has been very clear about how he thinks women should be treated. At the stroke of midnight, keep your friends close, and your enemies (men) at least 12 inches away from your face. Toast a glass of champagne to a potential apocalypse, and hold close those friends you'll want around when 2017 finds a way to be terrible in some new, inventive way. You can refuse the incredibly pointless rite of passage that is a New Year's Kiss, and no curse is going to befall you. ~Be intentional~ about how you spend the arbitrary-but-culturally-significant moment between years. If we all make it to NYE 2018, you'll be glad you were.
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