The New Year's Service

Every New Year's Eve, most churches hold a service, a vigil, where members gather to pray into the new year, and then we all get to wish each other happy new year before going back home.

For some reason, I'm very excited about today's vigil, which is so unlike me. I'm really not a fan of having to attend church vigils because it is during nights like that, that I find myself battling with serious sleep.

_{photo by Edwin Andrade}

But I guess the reason for me being excited is that this will be the first cross-over service (that is what the service is called) that I will be attending since the last three years. And no, it's not because I hate going to church and all that, but mainly because I've spent the last three years away from home, in a student environment where everyone (other than me) gets to travel home to be with their family.

And with everyone gone, it means the whole place becomes empty, leaving just a few of us around. Considering that this cross-over services only holds at night and ends that same night, having to get robbed on my way back from the service is something I don't look forward to experiencing, and that is why rather than risk my safety, I have always decided to remain back at home.

But luckily for me, it is a different story this year and this will be the first vigil I will be attending since the last three years too (told you guys I didn't like it), so I'm a bit curious to see if I will still hate it or if my perspective about the program has changed.

It is one of the first things that I'm excited to see if it has been affected by my personal growth or not. After all, they do say that some things never change.