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People don't think too much, they feel, they want to be happier, so they just wish everyone else a happy "insert thing here" day. They have multiple things going on with their day so they don't waste as much on the celebration of particular events as you think. It's not new year or anything.

With AEwVS 3rd anniversary, people just noticed today is the day, and people who play the game a lot were like "Yay! This game is so great I am glad it's third anniversary for it. This is awesome!" and they go on with their day. You aren't missing out on anything, you are just not adapted to receive pure bliss from things like that because you find them trivial. It all depends on your perecption. Everyone lives in different realities, theoretically, because they perceieve things differently, and you don't just choose to be happy or not, sometimes you just mess up your dopamine perceptors until you can't get pleasure from performing challenges or tasks that would otherwise make you happy, from different things.

"Why does everything feel so empty when everyone else is having a good time over an absurdly trivial specific occasion?"

It's like childish bliss of not knowing any better and celebrating over the smallest things. I envy it.

"They're all doing things in their celebration. They want to make the days special. What exactly do they do to have more fun than they normally do, though?"

"Why are other days discriminate? Why can't we feel so good everyday?"

ikr, we want to live by years, and it's easy to set a day for something in that year. If every day was your birthday, it wouldn't be special, if every day is different and has it's own holiday, that makes it more, fun, and special. That makes it matter, that day stand out.

People set their own limits for themselves. They play games just for that, put themselves in limits for tasks to accomplish, people just wanna be happy you know, you want it too.

"If humans didn't exist, every day would be another normal day. The fact that everybody else seems to be celebrating about something so abstract, and so irrelevant to nature, is confusingly bothersome."

dude like.. Art is abstraction. By that logic all of internet is irrelevant, to nature. Why does anything matter, you breaking down everything to serotonins, dopamins is not seeing the bigger picture. If you are going to go to school and study numbers and history, celebrating a new year coming shouldn't seem that wrong.

"Are people so egotistical as to want special recognition beyond the acknowledgement that they exist?"

Are you egoistical for creating entertainment, are you egoistical for wasting your time on playing entertainment. "boohoo but humans only want to pleasure themselves for those serotonins", EVERYONE does. We exist for this reason. You are egoistical, I am egoistical, you are not an alien.