{"id":6973,"date":"2016-04-23T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2016-04-23T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T06:58:42","slug":"why-2020-is-the-best-year-to-stop-celebrating-new-years-eve-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6973","title":{"rendered":"Why 2020 is the Best Year to Stop Celebrating New Year\u2019s Eve\u2026 Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>he year 2020 forced us to adopt many new trends, habits, and behaviours. Boomers at the Supreme Court had to figure out video calling, students had to find a way to create ruckus during online lectures, and desi families had to learn to downsize weddings from 1,000 guests to 50. It was a terrible year where travel shut down, then restaurants, malls, and theatres, and eventually even Gmail was down<\/a>. Diwali was muted, as was Christmas, Eid, and the festival that unites all Indians: IPL.\n\nAs we approach New Year\u2019s Eve, no one is asking \u201c31st ka kya plan hai?\u201d There are only two types of people this NYE: those who have no plans and those who have small plans at home. And I\u2019m all for it. If there\u2019s one good thing that can come out of 2020 (apart from the latest Taher Shah song), it is that we don\u2019t need New Year Eve parties anymore. We don\u2019t need it in 2020, 2021, or 2050. Dare I say, it\u2019s time to cancel New Year\u2019s Eve parties forever.\n\nThe NYE party is like demonetisation, it sounds and feels like a good idea, but isn\u2019t. It begins with the \u201cpressure\u201d of having a plan. The joy over the Earth completing an orbit of the sun isn\u2019t spontaneous or organic, but has to be manufactured by investing time and money in a plan since you don\u2019t want to be left out or be the guy with no plan. Not having a NYE plan is like claiming you haven\u2019t seen Game of Thrones, people make social judgements as if you\u2019ve committed a moral crime.\n\n

The NYE party is like demonetisation, it sounds and feels like a good idea, but isn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nSo everyone starts browsing clubs, hotels, and party places weeks in advance so they can spend money they don\u2019t have to dance around people they don\u2019t know. Women have to doll up and dance uncomfortably in stillhoutes and guys have to channel their inner Ranveer Singh. Traffic is crazy everywhere, parking space is scarce, and service pathetic, since hotels want to make money and have taken up more bookings they can handle. Amid all of this, God forbid you have an argument with bae or tussle with friends over something silly. NYE ruined!\n\nAll this effort for what? Eating an undercooked paneer starter that was available for one-fourth the price just a few hours back? Going deaf and dancing among thousands in a packed crowd as if you were in a Virar local? Playing games like Housie that even seven-year-olds don\u2019t consider cool anymore? Counting down from 10 but not being able to kiss your girlfriend at midnight in public because the place is so overpacked there is some stranger stuck between the two of you? To put up Instagram stories every seven minutes so others know how much \u201cfun\u201d you are having? While you miss the fun in an attempt to capture more Instagram content.\n\nThis year, the pandemic made sure none of that happens. I\u2019ll be at home and possibly watch an award show on TV while feasting on some restaurant ordered pav-bhaji and I\u2019m not going to miss the madness. A house party with a few close friends where you catch up on a movie, play cards, or reminisce about the good ol\u2019 days is far more enriching than the fake scene we make every year. If dancing at home in pyjamas, having masala Maggi, and getting on Zoom call with BFFs on 31st make you happy, you do you. Make merry on your own terms.\u00a0 The NYE party exists so you can have fun, you don\u2019t exist to honour archaic NYE traditions.\n\nMitron, let\u2019s just admit what we all know is true deep down. The New Year\u2019s Eve party is overrated and it is time to get done with it in 2020.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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