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Despite all the awfulness, it can be kinda nice to be amongst a lot of humans celebrating something.
I mean, I’m not doing it, but it’s not all bad.
I usually get myself so distracted by something that I don’t even realize the new year has started until about 30 minutes past midnight. I didn’t know why I bother stay up any more.
I just sit by the windows and watch the local illegal fireworks shows.
The last time I went to a bar on New Year Eve, I paid 20 bucks to get in, bought my first drink and started goofy dancing to a song that came on the radio. Then I got thrown out for being intoxicated.
The bar was playing radio music??
They had live music and between the sets they switched it to “whatever” on the radio so it wasn’t quiet.
That’s actually a pretty funny story
I took two tabs of acid with 3 friends and laughed and danced my arse off for 8 hours at a music festival. It was a magic night. I’ll grow up one day but not this year!
Staying at home myself, but I think the trick is to enjoy the moments between those frames.
If you don’t enjoy the moments in those frames, don’t go to some overcrowded place. There are no moments in between.
A lot of people enjoy it. I can’t understand them, so I stick to small crowds.
The moments in between are usually comprised of dissociation and wishing I was anywhere else. The crowd has already sapped me of any energy I would’ve used to yell over the music while
talking toyelling at friends.
Have always stayed home, away from the drunk drivers. Will continue to do so.
I walked to the bar. Accepted a free pour of sparkling wine. Counted down to midnight. Sang Auld Lang Syne. Drank my free wine. Hugged some strangers. Threw $5 in the tip jar. Walked home watching fireworks.
It’s a pretty fun holiday if you do it like me.
Nice city!
External validation!!!
Laughs in celebrating new year’s at home
Why I will never understand or relate to extroverts.
Seems like they spend a lot of excessive money being out & about doing all the things they do.
My admittedly boring method:
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stay home
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do stuff, maybe video games
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go to sleep whenever I feel like it
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wake up at the normal time
I’m with you
I used to stay up when I was younger just to witness the year changing, but now I’m old and just go to bed. It will be there in the morning.
I’ve found that, at least for me, I need to do social things, amazing things, and ceremony around it is also fine. Otherwise, I lose track of time and dark thoughts happen.
I encourage all to celebrate holidays or special events as much as you can, while you can. Every morning you wake up and can see and hear and smell and taste and feel and think. And if you’re short somewhere in that list, you probably already understand what I’m talking about. Life is short and a lot of people want yours to be shitty. Don’t let them win.
That being said, if you like playing videogames, don’t let the people who don’t appreciate that to make you feel like that isn’t quality time.
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Always surprising to me that people still do this. It’s always a scam and everyone goes home just slightly pissed off.
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I’ve never been out on new year’s, I’ve always been in my home or a friend’s or family member’s. Oh, tell a lie, on the millennium I was at church.
