We traveled in the US on New Year’s Eve. I have an admission to make. I have rarely had a lot of fun on New Year’s Eve. Years ago, we used to celebrate it at our cottage with good friends. Those were great fun, but we stopped doing that after we started going south for the winter. This is one of the severe costs of travelling south. Being away from friends and family is a high price to pay.
So many of the more formal New Year’s events, whether professionally organized or not, are events in which you MUST have fun. It is not just expected, it is demanded. That puts a lot of pressure on such events. More pressure than they can always sustain. I find having fun on demand to be difficult to achieve. Many group events in my opinion are like that. And the bigger the event the less likely it is that I will enjoy it. Maybe it is just me, but it is me.
A good example of that even though I have never attended, is the New Year’s celebration on December 31st each year in Times Square. If you can’t have fun there it is obvious that something is wrong with you. People line up for hours before it starts and the pressure is so high for the events that people have a very difficult time leaving their secured spot even when they really want to go. I mean it exactly like that. If you really have to go, there is no place to go without losing your place. Someone will take over. As a result, many adults wear adult diapers! It is that hard to find access to a washroom. For me that is too high a price.
Frankly, I usually find such events boring. The entertainers may be professional and well-known but I usually get bored. Usually, when I attended such events, I wished I was at home.
Maybe I’m just a party pooper.