get out while you still can

New Years Eve is on its way

The cold isn’t the worst part of the winter, or the fact that it’s dark out almost the entire day, or family bickering during Christmas. No, the worst part of the winter is following question: “Hey, what are your plans for New Years Eve?”

You’ve got the odd bunch who somehow think it’s okay to start planning out their NYE plans in the middle of the summer, since apparently if you want to organize the worlds best party, you have to start out early. And that’s probably the biggest issue of all: everyone is organizing some sort of party or dinner and they expect you to be present, so they try to get you to commit as early as possible. Think of it as some lame Facebook competition to win a trip to Bali.

As much as we’d like to avoid it, the new year is coming, and so is New Years Eve. The Question has been thrown my way a couple of times already (which is pretty pathetic by the way since I’ve been fleeing the country for the past six years to spend NYE abroad and you would expect my friends to know this) and every time I happily tell them: “I’m sorry, I’ll be abroad.” The built up tension for The Best Party Of The Year is already giving me the chills, cause let’s be real, NYE is 90% The Most Disappointing Party Of The Year.

And the rest of the Amayzine office seems to agree after throwing the following question their direction. “Guys, who here actually likes New Year Eve? Raise your hands if you’re excited for it.” … Nothing happened. Our health editor kind of likes it, but as for the rest of us, the pressure and social commitments and especially the inevitable huge disapointment are things we aren’t looking forward to. Same goes for the fact that you feel like you’ve fallen into you structural pattern of bad choices and you feel like the entire world is having a blast – except for you.

Save yourself the disappointment and do as I do. Go abroad. Some tropical paradise that will have you galloping into the new year with your feet in the sand and a cocktail in hand. When you’re abroad the  pressure of having the best night of you life is no where to be found, as is FOMO. And that guys, that is a win-win situation right there: no one is hounding you to come to their party since you’ll be starting off the new year in paradise. That’ll teach ‘em.