"Ringing Out The Old Year and Welcoming The New Year!" This is something we say every New Years Eve. Then we forget the past and begin something new like a new exercise or diet. We start out fresh for it is a New Year after all. For me New Years was not until May 5th, because this is the day I would ring out the old and welcome the new. My first May 5th, New Year was May 5, 1988, for this is when I celebrate my first Cinco De Mayo day, my first day in South Omaha, and when I fell in love for the first time. This will be the last May 5th, 2008, 20 years, that I will talk about as a New Year because from now on my New Year will fall on New Year. I am letting go of this day because after all this time I can now do this. As I said before May 5th had its meaning for me and I will start with that first one. It was a warm day May 5th, 1988, my family had just moved to South Omaha from Bellevue. My sisters and I heard about Cinco de Mayo day and wanted to take in on this celebration so we fix ourselves up and went to watch the parade. After the parade was over my sister's boyfriend and another man cross the street, this man caught my eye and it was love at first sight. I thought I seen forever in this man and could not wait to be with this man. He help me celebrate this day May 5th for the last 16 years we talk about how we met and fell in love. Then we got a divorce and I thought my world had end right then and there. The next three years I begun to date and each of them years I was with a different boyfriend. With that boyfriend I would cry my eyes out into a bottle of hard liquor or big bottle of beer. I would tell him what a loser I was for losing that man and I would tell him about my May 5th. He would tell me what a fool I was being and that I needed to forgive and forget for time goes on but it is like I am standing still. I did not want to listen to them but now I am for I hear it now. I have waste much energy on this day because I never wanted to let it go but this May 5th, 2008 will be 20 years and it is time to let this day go forever. My exhusband has he has a new love and even has a new baby. This shows me he has a new life and it is time for me to move on too. I do not have a boyfriend this May 5th, I will be walking in the parade with my kids, and when I walk I will hold my head high for this is just another day from now on because I am ringing out the old.