The Truth about your “Awesome” NYE Plans

By Sarah Wetzel

The days leading up to winter break were days spent planning. We planned what we’d do on Christmas, where we’d go on the boring days, and, most importantly, what we were going to do on New Year’s Eve. We all told stories about going out to parties or getting together with all our friends to celebrate the new year.

Movies and TV shows have set that precedent for us, and we assume that’s what’s expected. However, what most people did when that clock struck midnight was quite different from the outrageous plans they had originally made.

Being teenagers, we may have the ability to sneakily do whatever pleases us, but we can’t do it with a clear conscience. Curfews, where we go, and who we end up with are all required information that must be set in stone before most of us leave our front door step. Even if lies are told, getting out of the house is the first difficult task we must conquer. “My parents won’t even let me go out on New Year’s Eve,” junior Bailey Parde said. “They have these crazy ideas that I’ll end up doing something stupid and wind up prison for life.”

When some of us aren’t allowed to go out, we blame it on the unfairness of our parents, but we never remember that they were young once and have experience. They know what we’re capable of because they, surprisingly, were capable of it once as well.

For the ones that got the “Golden Ticket,” their nights weren’t nearly as entertaining as they were made out to be. “I had all these plans to go out and have the best New Year’s Eve yet, but it didn’t end up like that,” junior Bailee Lewis-Hopkins said. “I just went out and hung out with friends at their house. We stayed up until 12, Tweeted about it, and then were left with nothing to do. We made it out to be a lot more fun than it actually was though. It wasn’t nearly as good of a night as it sounded.” After we returned from school, many of the stories we heard were fabricated and exaggerated, but they were definitely entertaining to hear about.

Teenagers always make plans that sound way more fun than they actually turn out to be. Some don’t even go through with them and come back to school telling everyone of crazy nights that never actually happened. Even though movies have made New Year’s Eve one of the biggest parties world wide, not everyone actually does what is expected. In all reality, most sit at home, wait until midnight, and then go to sleep with images of what they could have been doing.

We can’t quite do what we want yet, so until then, New Year’s Eve will remain a disappointment.

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