Why you should especially keep drinking on New Year's Day
HAPPY. NEW. YEAR. Yess dear people, 2020 is here. Party. Fireworks. Champagne. Hangover. Yes, that sounds about right, doesn't it? The vast majority of people do drink a little too much on New Year's Eve, and that should be perfectly fine. Hello, in 2019, that kind of thing was just normal. That's last year. 2020 is the year of new rounds, new opportunities. It's going to be my year. So far, those are the things I always resolve to do on every January 1st I've experienced so far. New round, new opportunities: absolutely, but we just start the year with a drink.
Why? Because having drinks on January 1st is one of the most fun things there is. Okay, maybe you need more convincing to really reach for the alcohol again with the massive headache you're probably experiencing right now. Understandable. So I find New Year's Eve never that super fun, for various reasons. The main reason is that I always find it such an obligation. Sure, it's cozy with friends and/or family around, but it also has to be cozy.
New Year's Eve is not an evening you live towards aimlessly. Maybe not everything is set in stone yet, but there is usually a general plan. And you also have to time it so that you're not on your way from one party to another at midnight. So you're already busy with that from eleven o'clock. And after twelve, you have to decide whether to stay at your current party or move on. But then you have to wait until the fireworks are a bit less.
You understand where I'm going: it's almost never relaxing. Even if you don't have multiple plans and just stay home with a small group, the whole living-towards-the-midnight-moment drives me crazy. I always have the feeling that at twelve o'clock everything suddenly changes completely, because yes, it's the new year. Of course, that's never the case, and that's why it's always a disappointment. And then you wake up on January 1st... Aside from the hangover, you don't have to do anything. You don't have to work (okay, the next day you do, but that's why there's the afternoon drink), there's no stress about whether the evening will be fun; absolutely nothing. And those are precisely the best moments to go for drinks.
Because everyone no longer has those nerves and everyone is nice and relaxed. You don't have to stay for a certain time (going home before midnight on New Year's Eve is of course not an option), so even if you only have one drink: that's fine too. Just do your thing. A drink also helps against your hangover, and you can go over the evening with the people you might have missed on New Year's Eve, but that doesn't have to happen either. Just chat about nothing. As if it's just a random day off. And it is, of course. Those are the best.
