Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Manassas

MANASSAS, VA — New Year's Eve is just around the corner. This year, there are several events around Manassas for people looking to ring in the new year.

Events include live music, DJs, balloon drops, and more. Here are a few of the events planned for the Manassas area on New Year's Eve.

• Skate N' Fun Zone New Year's Skate
  • Runs from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• New Year's Eve Worship Concert at Jirani Coffeehouse
  • The free concert begins at 6 p.m.
• Cosmic Rolling at Dominion BJJ
  • This jiu jitsu event takes place under black light. The free event begins at 6 p.m. and is open to everyone.
• New Year's Eve at Farm Brew LIVE
  • The party begins at 8 p.m.

In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is, of course, the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Various cities have adopted their own iterations of the event — the Peach Drop in Atlanta, the Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop in Boise, Idaho.

The end of one year and beginning of another is often celebrated with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a Scottish folk song whose title roughly translates to “days gone by,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica and History.com.

The history of New Year’s resolutions dates back 8,000 years to ancient Babylonians, who would make promises to return borrowed objects and pay outstanding debts at the beginning of the new year, in mid-March when they planted their crops.

According to legend, if they kept their word, pagan gods would grant them favor in the coming year. If they broke the promise, they would fall out of God’s favor, according to a history of New Year’s resolutions compiled by North Hampton Community College New Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Many secular New Year’s resolutions focus on imagining new, improved versions of ourselves. The failure rate of New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report. There are myriad reasons, but a big one is they’re made out of remorse for gaining weight, for example, and aren’t accompanied by a shift in attitude and a plan to meet the stress and discomfort of changing a habit or condition.