Wishing y’all a very very VERY Happy New Year!
So my first blog of the Year is what I learnt this New Year.
So my first blog of the Year is what I learnt this New Year.
You know people generally make resolutions and all that on the 31st of December, I end up learning things. Maybe its just Me J
My New Year started off at 2230 on the 31st of December with a Bad Feeling at the pit of my stomach. Like, literally, a very very bad feeling. I had stomach ache :P There was a New Year’s Eve party at My Uncle’s place. Basically so that 15-20 voices could shout together HApppPAYYYYY New YeaaarRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr, I guess.
As it always happens on New Year’s Eve, people got drunk :P Well, not ‘got drunk’ per se, but yeah, that one-two shots of Vodka and God-Knows-What Alcoholic Crap was there. Thank heavens I’m 15, I’m not allowed to drink. After 18, I’m hoping and wishing I can say No with enough firmness. I have these rigid fixed views about Drinking, Smoking, and the likes of it. I just can’t stand the smell of Alcohol. Neither arising from the bottle nor from people -_-
Either which way, I was just sitting and watching everyone. My Cousin’s Wife handed her glass to Me so she could pick out some other glasses for some more guests. I remember how I held the glass as if it carried some infection. I held it so far away from Me that even if Wind blew in My direction, I wouldn’t be able to smell the Alcohol. Boy, I’m allergic to it!
I used to try and stop people, but after that I realised that it is of no use. I could only hold Myself back. On My 18th birthday, I’m going to have a ‘dry’ party. Call Me boring or whatever, but yeah, ‘dry’ party.
My cousin’s friends who’d come, they drank too. And by 0015 (12:15 am), they were out. I asked My mom why they’d left, and she said “Beta you see, the Traffic Police will be taking Alcohol tests in a while.”
What I realised was that People wouldn’t stop drinking. People will forever and forever try and find loopholes in Law and try as hard as possible to defy it. Don’t drink and drive means Don’t. Drink. And. Drive. Whether it is 0015, or 0020. Just. Simply. DON’T!
Incident two: During the party, we played Dumb Charades, Antakshari, etc. As I sat there looking at everyone sing songs I didn’t even know existed... I was cursing every single damned person on Earth for making Me suffer this ‘Fate.’ Even then I wished that these people would sing songs I recognised, not that I could recognise the songs they sang.
New Year’s Eve, All in all made Me realise that however much We try to put on a Sweet Face, it is, in the End, just that: Put-On. Nothing on Earth will make People change some things in them. They just prefer their surroundings change according to their Wish and Will./
I guess, Be who You are must not be taken so seriously after all!
xD
Happy New Year folks J
