In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.
Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.