New Year’s Eve should be the best holiday of the year. It should be a celebration of the year that’s passed and a hopeful look at the year to come. Unfortunately, New Year’s Eve is never that simple or easy. It has now become an annual last call on the 2015 year and is an over-hyped, played out, and absurdly expensive formality disguised as a good time. Even though it'll likely end in tears, a shattered iPhone screen, and a overwhelming amount of Instagram pictures posted, New Year’s Eve has actually become the worst holiday of the year and is just a drunken stumble into January 1.

Here are 19 reasons why New Year's Eve is overrated.

1. People use it as an excuse for a fresh start.

2. There is always a last second scramble to make the best New Year's Eve plans in the history of New Year's Eve's.

3. You're literally setting yourself up for disappointment.

4. Every single person is either complaining about not having someone to kiss as midnight or making fun of the couples who are excited to kiss at midnight.

5. The weather is always horrible.

6. The expectations are unreasonably high to have a perfect night.

7. Finding a cab or Uber at the end of the night is impossible.

8. The patron to bartender ratio is typically 500:1.

9. You’re more likely to get slugged by a drunken partier than steal a kiss at midnight.

10. People use it as an excuse to get way too drunk.

11. It's expected to have a trendy New Year's Eve outfit.

12. Someone in the group always ends up in tears.

13. Everything on New Year's Eve is more expensive when your finances are already under fire.

14. You're getting irresponsibly drunk in your most expensive outfit.

15. Doing New Year's Eve properly means beginning 2016 with a 48-hour hangover.

16. Derailing all your New Year's resolutions 3 hours into 2016, and being crippled with regret already.

17. Not having someone to kiss at midnight and starting off 2016 depressed.

18. Kissing someone awkwardly at midnight and now feeling some obligation to them the next day.

19. And, it’s all for a 10-second countdown.

Here’s the fact that everyone seems to forget every time December 31st rolls around: it doesn’t matter how you start the year or end the year. These things have no reflection on the value of the year altogether. You know what went down during the other 364 days, like all the amazing things that happened that didn’t involve wearing a exclamatory greeting on your headband or a bunch of numbers over your eyes. Times that didn’t involve counting down to anything because you were having the time of your life in the moment already. Drinks that were cheaper, weather that was warmer, and dresses that fit better than after a week of indulging in holiday meals prepared by the best chefs in the family.

Seriously, who’s idea was to over-hype one night out of the year to base how the rest of our year will be. Don't take it so seriously, because it’s not the end of the world. In fact, it’s only the beginning, right?

Here’s to a Happy New Year, everyone!