Thousands of people in Time Square New York celebrated the ninth New York’s Good Riddance Day. Basically a huge shredder was set up where people could publically destroy their physical and emotional ‘baggage’. People through in notes and placards, pills and bills, and piles of clothes; anything representing their baggage of 2015. A line as far as the eye could see stretched all down Broadway.
The simple rule was that any member of the public could come to destroy, “any unpleasant, embarrassing and downright forgettable memories from 2015”. This was done with passion shredding papers with the words ‘NEGATIVITY” and “PROCRASTINATION” written on them, smashing up IT equipment with hammers, destroying credit cards and throwing out mementos from old relationships.
Good Riddance Day has its roots in an old Latin American tradition where people sew objects on dolls and set them on fire letting their pain and frustrations dissipate in the smoke!
And what became of all the shredded rubbish? It was recycled and used as confetti as the famous Time Square Ball dropped at midnight.
This is something we could all do in the privacy of our own back yards to get us moving forward again in 2016 here in Sydney – A Happy and prosperous New Year to you all!
