About new year partying

They are having a new year party in the basement of the apartment building. This reminds me of the parties we used to have in Nauroji Nagar. We would pool money and have party on this roof or that roof, or at a friend’s place where parents had gone away. After a few parties (as the kids grew up) we also started having cheap booze. I don’t know why at that time it used to feel like fun but if today someone asks me to attend such a party I’d be bored to death. My idea of fun has gone through a complete change.

A new year party is good if there are only 5-6 people who are very close to you. You can talk, eat, sing, listen to some good music, get drunk. Spending a once-a-year event in a place full of people gyrating wildly sounds drab and cliched. You can’t even hear anything and the music is so loud that it sounds like a cacophonous obfuscation. And most people are there because they have to be in a party, fearing that they are spending a very non-happening new year eve if they are not going to a party. And again, to be frank, some people attend parties just because they may bump into some prospective girlfriend or boyfriend — I mean, who knows? But then, some people like it for the sheer fun of it.

This time Alka and I are going to have the best new year eve of our lives — we’ll be spending it with Vasu. What better company can we get? I wouldn’t exchange it for anything else in this world. We’ll probably cut a cake as the clock strikes 12. At the dawn of a day we’ll be entering another wonderful year of aspirations and possibilities. We’ll sow many new dreams and construct their building blocks. It’ll be heavenly to be with both of them.

I don’t attach much importance to things like new year and such because I think all days are special days but such moments are good for appreciating people that are in our lives, and who really matter: they love you and you love them just for being there, for existing. You don’t have to be “someone” to qualify for their love. Every moment is a precious moment with them and this we realize when we are not with them or cannot go meet them. They are the party.