Staying at home myself, but I think the trick is to enjoy the moments between those frames.
post
Staying home has been the way for me for years. I fucking hate overcrowded bars.
In my younger years I partied wild and even hosted parties with hundreds of guests (rented facilities).
Since my 40s I stay at home and go to bed at 10 pm latest.
Nah, going to a friends house with drinks I bought at the grocery store.
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??
I mean, some people enjoy going out into energetic crowds.
Yup, and those are the people pressuring the 90% who don't to come out anyhow lol
Some people enjoy pay all of their money to play cards, too.
And others pay money to gain cancer.
Like imagine getting cancer treatment in a hospital and looking out the window and seeing someone smoking. Two people doing the exact opposite things.
Some people pay money to enjoy their lives, and savour every moment, even if it means cutting the crap a little short.
I don't smoke, as the risk/reward isn't worth it to me personally, but if it's what it takes for others to be happy, all the power to em. Knock themselves out. Literally heh.
I'd rather live 50-60yrs to their fullest, than live 80-90 mediocre years inside watching the latest Netflix crap or tv repeats (not to say there aren't times when I enjoy it).
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.
My admittedly boring method:
-
stay home
-
do stuff, maybe video games
-
go to sleep whenever I feel like it
-
wake up at the normal time
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.
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.
Have always stayed home, away from the drunk drivers. Will continue to do so.
this is the worst comic ive ever seen. 3 frames are literally just the same drawing
Seriously, draw people getting into a place, draw them getting drinks, draw them waiting for Uber or some shit.
It is a waste of a comic format. Would have been better as just text.
I'm so glad that my partner and I just stay in and enjoy each other's company with some drinks. Going out on NYE is absolutely god awful.
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.
There comes a certain age where if someone invites you to a New Year's Eve party you're just furious with them.
I think small party is fine. What I can't stand is counting down in a plaza.
Why I will never understand or relate to extroverts.
I made a tasty blueberry lavender cake, leek gratin with homemade bread and watched the stranger things finale. Ideally Iβd go to sleep now but goddamn fireworks are scaring my dog.
Always surprising to me that people still do this. It's always a scam and everyone goes home just slightly pissed off.
I watched anime at home. kissed my wife at midnight, then took my meds and went to sleep.
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 accidentally taught my 4 year old flip cup.
They had a "noon-years eve" party which celebrated the new year at noon... then the adults went a step further
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!
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.

top 54 comments