New Year Eve, like many other celebrations is over rated. Studies suggest (not really a study but an unbiased observation of self) that most people party on New Year's Eve out of the sheer peer pressure. Drinks, food, over-dessed people, loud music, drunk dancing, draining all your savings on an event you won't even remember cause you're gonna be sloshed..you will see enough evidences of your friend's partying and giving real time updates cause they wanna rub it on your face and say I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN YOU LIKING/REACTING LOSER ON FB.
Nonetheless, ignore all that. Let me suggest the mechanism or tell you alternate plans that can help you cope with the not-partying-on NYE scenario.
Spend Quality Time With Your Family: Presuming the other family members don't have party plans as well. Sit, chat, have drinks, gossip, talk about politics and the youth that irresponsibly parties, etc. etc. You can volunteer to cook for the fam-jam or just order food from outside. Ask the pizza delivery guy to join as well for crying out loud. This way you earn some brownie points of having prioritized your family overlack of any plans whatsoever meaningless partying.
Shopping Therapy: Log in to your Flipkart/ Amazon/ Jabong/ Myntra or whatever online shopping website sails your boat. I'm sure they will have some discounts for the wee hours shoppers..you kinda see a trend of them celebrating and discounting on special ocassions. So fret not, treat yourself with some clothes or gadgets or whatever :)
DO NOT LOG INTO SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS: Never should you ever commit the terrible mistake of logging onto your social media accounts and being the spectator of crazy partydom. People are gonna go live, tag places, upload pictures and videos and what not. You don't wanna be liking or commenting or reacting to such flaunters and feel sad for yourself. You can log in and watch but why see flashy displays of people with happening life.
Watch A Movie: Infact, watch your favorite movie/movies(if time allows) or binge watch your favorite show. Lay on your LaZboy, make some popcorns and sip that soda. Enjoy in cozy confines of your room. I can bet its gonna be better than those partying.
Indulge in a Hobby: Play some guitar, sing by renting a karaoke, read some book, write some greetings..basically indulge in something you've always wanted to indulge in. If you run out of ideas, you can easily think of good comebacks when people ask you what you did for the new year. You can even blog about how to get rid of the new year hangover cause people partying certainly need that. *pens down the topic for next post*
Create your own party: There are going to be people who are sailing in the same boat as you...like those not partying. Call them over to your place and indulge in some like-minded conversations. Yes, talk that talk.
Do some good deed on the 1st: How about starting your new year early morning with a list of good deeds that you can do. One of my friend is donating blood, and that's a great use of the 1st day of 2017. It also makes it special and memorable. So your good deeds can range from distributing sweets in an orphanage, donating blood, distributing blankets to the homeless to giving your maid a weekend and doing your chores by yourself. Little pleasures of life, eh?
So fret not, its not mandatory to party all night, dance like crazies, and wake up with the worst hangover. Actually, that's not how you should be welcoming the new year. So break 'em stereotypes and create your own rules.
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Nonetheless, ignore all that. Let me suggest the mechanism or tell you alternate plans that can help you cope with the not-partying-on NYE scenario.
Spend Quality Time With Your Family: Presuming the other family members don't have party plans as well. Sit, chat, have drinks, gossip, talk about politics and the youth that irresponsibly parties, etc. etc. You can volunteer to cook for the fam-jam or just order food from outside. Ask the pizza delivery guy to join as well for crying out loud. This way you earn some brownie points of having prioritized your family over
Shopping Therapy: Log in to your Flipkart/ Amazon/ Jabong/ Myntra or whatever online shopping website sails your boat. I'm sure they will have some discounts for the wee hours shoppers..you kinda see a trend of them celebrating and discounting on special ocassions. So fret not, treat yourself with some clothes or gadgets or whatever :)
DO NOT LOG INTO SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS: Never should you ever commit the terrible mistake of logging onto your social media accounts and being the spectator of crazy partydom. People are gonna go live, tag places, upload pictures and videos and what not. You don't wanna be liking or commenting or reacting to such flaunters and feel sad for yourself. You can log in and watch but why see flashy displays of people with happening life.
Watch A Movie: Infact, watch your favorite movie/movies(if time allows) or binge watch your favorite show. Lay on your LaZboy, make some popcorns and sip that soda. Enjoy in cozy confines of your room. I can bet its gonna be better than those partying.
Indulge in a Hobby: Play some guitar, sing by renting a karaoke, read some book, write some greetings..basically indulge in something you've always wanted to indulge in. If you run out of ideas, you can easily think of good comebacks when people ask you what you did for the new year. You can even blog about how to get rid of the new year hangover cause people partying certainly need that. *pens down the topic for next post*
Create your own party: There are going to be people who are sailing in the same boat as you...like those not partying. Call them over to your place and indulge in some like-minded conversations. Yes, talk that talk.
Do some good deed on the 1st: How about starting your new year early morning with a list of good deeds that you can do. One of my friend is donating blood, and that's a great use of the 1st day of 2017. It also makes it special and memorable. So your good deeds can range from distributing sweets in an orphanage, donating blood, distributing blankets to the homeless to giving your maid a weekend and doing your chores by yourself. Little pleasures of life, eh?
So fret not, its not mandatory to party all night, dance like crazies, and wake up with the worst hangover. Actually, that's not how you should be welcoming the new year. So break 'em stereotypes and create your own rules.
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