New Year's Eve: Is it the single biggest letdown of the year?

It’s the last week of the year and suddenly everybody you know is on this crazed mission to find a rocking party for New Year’s Eve. The big question you ask everybody you bump into is “What are you doing on New Year’s Eve”? and some of them has a perfectly planned out response – so as to not look like a loser – and some people just haven’t given the idea a second thought.

What is it about New Year’s Eve that gets everybody so worked up? No matter where in the world you are on the 31st of December, if you’re not “doing anything” you’re automatically classified as a loser. You spend all your energy chasing this surreal dream of a magical night. But what for?

A great party, gorgeous people and an international DJ..
A perfect way to spend New Year’s Eve entails a great party with gorgeous people and an international DJ playing the most amazing set. Sounds almost perfect on paper, just as long as it’s not superficial. Obviously there are people who are into those types of parties otherwise it wouldn’t be such a huge success, year after year after year. But if you’re not into that type of thing and you’re spending you’re week’s pay on a VIP all areas access pass just to show everybody that you were there, then who are you actually fooling?

Let’s face it, if you’re not into trance, dance and house beats there really is nothing for you to do on the most important night of the year. Or is there?

Here’s the deal..
The solution is simple. Instead of having that frantic, panicked grin on your face every time someone asks you what you are going to do on New Years Eve, throw the question right back at them. The only reason why they’re asking you is probably because they don’t know what they are going to be doing themselves. So why not invite him/her with you and your buddies, the more people the more interesting the party. And it doesn’t have to be a raucous, call-the-cops-to-put-the-music-off kind of party. The possibilities are endless and the sky’s the limit.

Make your own night to remember
Different people means different personalities and there is guaranteed at least one interesting person in the room, one person you have failed to get to know properly, one joker, one hot chic/guy who came with your friend from work, one person that knows how to work the grill and one person who knows someone that knows someone whose cousin has an empty house that night. Isn’t it also weird that you bump into all the people that you haven’t seen in like decades, just before New Year’s? So make the most of it. Invite them round too.

And even if you don’t have an empty house, go out to an arb place where all of you can just chill out and have fun (whatever that’s supposed to mean).

If you are going to be at one of those infamous parties that gets people talking about it for the next year, remember that it’s the people you spend it with that actually count. You don’t NEED to be at the trendiest hotspots or the most elite nightclubs to have a great time. It's the people you're with and the mindset you have that all form part of the makings of a great night.

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