Once more people will get together to savour the last dinner of the
year. Once more people will overeat expensive food even in spite of being
filled up. An average Spanish New year’s eve dinner would be made up of king
prawns, croquettes, hake, veal, lamb, asparagus, fish soup, and all kind of
desserts such as rice pudding, custards, ice cream or fruit. There would be
another typical food called “turron” or nougat candy as well as many other
sweets. There will be expensive wines and champagne to drink a toast to the new
year. There will also be silly traditions such as starting the new year with
red clothes or eating twelve grapes during the twelve rings at midnight. People
will go to parties at that time to have fun in several clubs where they will
get drunk until the dawn. Such clubs charge very expensive tickets and serve
adulterated drinks very expensive too. This people will spend an average of one
hundred euros without counting the dinner. While they overeat and overdrink,
there also will be people starving in Spain. People sleeping in cars or under
the bridge. People ruined because of morgages that cannot pay anymore. Children
who will not receive any present. There will be sick people who are not
attended because of government cuts. Many people in Spain will hold New Year’s
Eve differently. For those who will overeat and overdrink that day I would urge
them to think about these people who are not so lucky of enjoying an abundant
dinner in the last day of the year. If after thinking of them, they still
celebrate New Year’s Eve this way, they would be proving being really bad
persons, selfish and insensitive. Why can’t we eat the last dinner of the year
like any other dinner? Why it cannot be a single dinner? Why do we must
overeat? Maybe because we have been taught by the capitalist system to live
Christmas this way. We have been taught to spend as much money as possible
these days. We have not been taught to help unlucky people who are in need. We
have been taught to be selfish and consumers. I don’t want to belong to this
group. And I am not going to follow the capitalist system advices anymore.
Actually I want to belong to the other group. The group of people who will
starve that day. I will starve that day too through a voluntary abstinence. I
will not party nor get drunk. I will not spend money in unnecessary gifts. This
will be my way of paying homage to this unlucky group of people. Someone wants
to join this group? Happy New Year !!!
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