Luis Farage
The year is about to end. Thank god, 2016 really sucked. But as the clock ticks away the final minutes of 2016. We feel the need to prepare you to receive 2017 and lower your expectations. And yes, you read correctly. As we have to give you a few slaps to receive the coming year.
Because let’s face it, year after year you think that this will be your year. You prepare a bunch of goals that you barely complete if you achieve to do any of them. And the guys from AsapScience have to make the time to explain to us why New Year’s Eve will, and alway will, suck. And they’ve done sum it up in 7 simple “steps.”
1.High expectations.
The main problem with New Year’s Eve is that we set the bar too high. And that’s the reason for us to give you a slap and bring you down to earth. As we set our hopes so high that at the minimum fail we feel disappointed and think that it all sucks. Even though 2016 has really been a crappy year.
2.Trying too hard.
As you put your expectations too high and try to have the good time you’re expecting, you push it so much you end up blowing it. As the same way, you start overthinking everything. Since it seems that when you’re trying so hard to have a good time somehow you enable your ability to do have it. As the music study that the video tells us has shown.
3.The Optimism Bais.
Probably the jerk that causes the first two. As our brain is programmed to overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes. And that is why we always think that the coming year will be our year. In the same way, newlyweds think they will never divorce, as the video explains. Finally leading to the letdown.
4.Reflection.
When an important stage of life is ending, we start to reflect on it. And attempt that our new stage, or time ahead, should be better and more amazing. As we try to achieve that by doing riskier things we never have done before or focused more on something. Leading again to trying hard and failing. And that leading to anxiety, frustration and other negative emotions.
5.Alcohol.
This doesn’t need much to be explained of. Since as you know the alcohol alters how your brain functions. By affecting the synapses and limbic system. Making us have less control of our actions and feelings, leading easily to euphoria or sadness.
6.Costs.
Is not only the fact of what you will spend, as every commercial establishment will raise their prices for the holidays. Is also the number mind tricks that they played, as the video explains that they set the prices.
7.The Kiss.
Even though you don’t need a couple to do it, you might think it twice from now on. As it not only adds more anxiety and stress to this particularly obnoxious date. But as well is it worth it the 80 million bacteria per seconds that is exchanged in it?
Relax, go do it.
After all, this knowledge that probably left you even more stressed than before the guys from AsapScience had a final advice for you: relax and have a good time. Not only because you will annulate pretty much of the causes that make this day suck. But because is just another day of your life, as it forms a tiny part of your whole year.
Just do it.
So really just relax and enjoy. Since it would suck anyway. But not as much as the whole 2016, so you can at least enjoy watching him die. As he took pretty much from the movie and music industry.
Better professor.
If you didn’t get something or simply want to watch the video for yourself and feel smarter here you have it. It is really amazing, and they explain it for dummies. With drawings and stuff.
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