As the great Oliver Cheatham once sang, “I like to party … Everybody does.” Except, it’s not true, is it? Not everyone does like to party. In fact, it never ceases to amaze me how many people will admit, in private, to hating parties. It’s actually quite hard to find anyone who is a self-confessed party animal, especially since the pandemic.
And yet the party spirit lives on. People continue to have birthday gatherings, host soirees (even though they can’t pronounce “soiree”) and insist on having work leaving dos no one wants to go to except the people nobody wants there. Sometimes I’m not sure why we do this to ourselves. But we do. And it’s got to be a good thing – otherwise, our lives would just be work, home and the screens. When you put it that way, maybe parties are the only vestige of humanity we have left. We’ve gotta fight for our right to party – with confidence. Here’s how.
