There is no one new to meet. Where and with whom to celebrate the New Year: advice from a psychologist
There are situations when on New Year’s Eve a person finds himself far from family and friends. The portal "In the Moscow Region" offers options on how to have fun celebrating the New Year 2015 in Moscow and the Moscow region if you are left alone on New Year's Eve.
Go to the main city Christmas tree
If you don’t want to just go to bed, go to the central square of your city to the main Christmas tree. As a rule, a citywide holiday is organized in all cities and towns of the Moscow region. To avoid getting bored just walking, you can buy sweets, put on a Santa Claus hat and treat passers-by, wish everyone a Happy New Year.
Take part in street celebrations in Moscow
It’s even better to take a walk on New Year’s Eve in the center of Moscow - the pedestrian areas of the capital are filled with an atmosphere of celebration and magic, the capital’s boulevards are decorated with unusual light and festive installations. It’s worth a look at Rozhdestvensky, Sretensky, Chistoprudny boulevards, and on Tsvetnoy Boulevard you can even make a wish in the New Year’s Entertainment tent.
On New Year's Eve, the central street of the city - Tverskaya - from 22.00 will turn into a huge dance floor, where a big party and a mobile carnival will take place. Until 2 a.m., the organizers promise music, dancing, sparklers, special effects, a sea of light and many pleasant surprises. You can learn to dance rock and roll, disco, and at midnight watch the festive fireworks on Vasilyevsky Spusk. On the Krymskaya embankment, the creative association S-11 and the Muzeon art park are organizing the New Year's Super Gathering - a real street festival with good music, a food market, dance floors and free entry.
Skate
The opportunity to walk in the park at night and go ice skating to music and the roar of fireworks does not come often. Skating rinks will be open in almost all parks of the capital until 3 am. At the largest skating rink in Moscow and Europe at VDNKh, visitors will enjoy a concert program throughout the night; entry to the skating rink from 21.30 will cost 1,000 rubles for an adult. Ice skating on New Year's Eve in the Hermitage Garden will cost the same; a ticket to the New Year's party at the Wow Skating Rink in Gorky Park will cost 800 rubles; guests will enjoy a light show, music and special effects. In Tagansky Park, a masquerade ball is being organized at the skating rink; admission is promised to be free for guests in carnival costumes.
Take part in a ski race
But in Izmailovsky Park you can go skiing. Here, on the night of December 31, the show “Atmosphere of Light” will take place, which will be presented to the audience by the winners of the Venice Festival “Salamander” and the company “Lazer Media”. Well, after the chimes, the New Year’s ski race “Chasing the Phoenix” starts. Under the leadership of Father Frost, participants will have to overcome a “route decorated with magical glowing balls.” The winners are promised memorable prizes. There will be fireworks over the pond and music.
Find a company at the last minute
Perhaps your friends and colleagues simply don’t know that you are alone on New Year’s Eve. Many people welcome guests on holidays, so you should put aside prejudices and fears that you will disturb someone. Sometimes it’s enough just to hint that you don’t have company, and you will be invited to a big party or a small home celebration, even if you say this on the evening of December 31st. Or maybe one of your friends has the same problem, and you can easily arrange a meeting somewhere in the city and take a walk together.
Go online
If you want to celebrate the New Year with your loved ones, then do not miss the opportunity to contact them at least electronically, via Skype or Viber. For example, you can decorate the house, decorate the Christmas tree, during a video call you can even create the illusion of continuing the festive table, and then clink glasses of champagne on both sides of the screen.
In addition, there are forums, social networks, local chats, services like “let’s get together”, where you can find the same “singles” right at midnight, not only chat online, but also agree to meet, take a walk, or even go to a party together.
Go to the yard with your neighbors
If you don’t want to communicate a lot, then after midnight you can just go out into the yard; the neighbors will probably set off fireworks and won’t mind company with a good mood and sparklers.
Irina Ivanova
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For some of them, loneliness became a conscious choice. Others go on dates regularly but are unable to meet the right person. What is the reason? In themselves, in their past or in the features of the modern lifestyle?
Mikhail, 36 years old
“...I can’t find the right person”
I've been alone for three years. My ex-wife filed for divorce after ten years of marriage. Three months later she started dating a new man. They are still together. Our daughters – 8, 5 and 4 years old – live with them. I only see the girls on weekends.
I can't get over this breakup. After the divorce, I didn’t even have a short-term relationship or a one-night stand, although I registered on dating sites and tried to go on dates. But none of the women wanted to continue communication and meet with me a second time. Apparently I didn't live up to their expectations. No wonder. Lately I've completely lost my confidence and I can't be seductive.
After several attempts, I became disillusioned with dating sites. I don't think I'll be able to find a suitable woman online. Now I try to meet people the old fashioned way - in bars or in the company of mutual friends. I must admit that in three years of single life I have acquired habits that a woman may not like. And sometimes I'm not sure I want to let anyone into my life.
Over the three years of single life, I have acquired habits that a woman may not like
In addition, as it turned out, most new acquaintances are intimidated by the fact that I have daughters. I thought that a caring father of three girls should seem sweet and trustworthy. But no! Apparently, these women are afraid that I will devote more time to the children than to them. Or they are afraid that they will have to help me raise the girls.
Maria, 32 years old
“...I'm afraid to make mistakes again”
I've been alone for 9 months. This is unusually long for me. The whole situation depresses me. I can't imagine my life without relationships. For me, happiness is sharing every day with its hardships and joys with a loved one. Love makes me stronger, more purposeful and confident.
Most of my friends are dating someone. Some are married and even have children. All this only increases my desire to find a person with whom I can move forward, laugh, cry, travel, doubt and become better.
Lately I've been trying to date. I went through a psychologically quite difficult breakup. He made me doubt myself. I needed time to be alone, analyze everything and calm down. For several months I was simply not ready to trust a new person.
Relationships fascinate me as much as they terrify me. I'm afraid of making mistakes and being disappointed again
I feel better now, but the pain has given way to bitterness and loneliness. I'm not trying at any cost to start dating someone, but I'm still in a permanent state of searching. When my friends and I go to a bar or club, I try to meet someone.
I registered on a dating site. But communication there is just a pleasant pastime. I don't believe that you can find true love online.
I think there are several factors preventing me from having an affair. The first one is myself. Relationships fascinate me as much as they terrify me. I'm afraid of making mistakes and being disappointed again. I have become more closed and trust men much less. Although outwardly she remained sociable, smiling and frivolous.
Second factor: I live in a big city. Here everyone lives at a crazy pace. People make decisions quickly and want to move on to the next stage of the relationship. And I'm not ready to rush.
Anita, 46 years old
“...men don’t share my interests”
I have two children, 13 and 10 years old. I divorced their father because we became strangers to each other. And I didn’t want my children to have the wrong model of marriage before their eyes.
After the divorce, I had several short affairs that lasted 3-4 weeks. Usually I immediately realized that this relationship was doomed. For example, we had different income levels, outlooks on life, or interests. I almost always initiated the breakup myself.
Why did I even start them? Apparently due to a lack of self-confidence. I was afraid to choose those I really liked for fear of being rejected. As a result, I met people who were obviously not suitable for me and for whom I did not feel any feelings. After several sessions with a psychoanalyst, I was able to cope with this problem. Now I know that men can like me, they consider me attractive and give me less years than I actually have.
I don't believe in love at first sight. I need to get to know a person and communicate with him
I installed Tinder on my phone and tried to meet people through the app. But this method doesn't suit me. You feel like you're in a supermarket. You scroll through profiles as if you were choosing a product. And you need to immediately understand whether you like a person or not. And I don't believe in love at first sight. I need to get to know the person and communicate with him.
I recently met a special man in real life. We dated for 6 months - a record time for me. I really wanted this relationship to grow into something more. But in the end I left him when I realized that my children were causing him anxiety. It was as if he was fighting with them for my attention. Then I met this man's friend. But he considered our relationship a betrayal, and in the end we broke up.
Besides, because of children and work, I don’t have much free time. Except on weekends. At the same time, I like to go to concerts, the theater and restaurants. And men often do not share my interests. They want to spend their weekends at home. It's boring.
Elena, 44 years old
“...I can’t imagine how you can spend your whole life with one person”
My longest relationship lasted 18 months. And we lived with this man in different cities. That is, we saw each other on weekends.
I always knew that I would never get married. The very idea of living life with one person seems incredible. Although I would like to share some important moments with a loved one. But where to find it? I don't believe in trendy dating apps and sites. More likely to meet someone on the street.
I used to live in the provinces and believed that it was easier to find love in a big city. But it turned out that, on the contrary, it is more difficult. Here everyone is absorbed in work and their own affairs.
I always knew that I would never get married. The very idea of living life with one person seems incredible.
Does loneliness bother me? Yes and no. I like that you don't have to adapt to anyone. I decide for myself how to spend my weekends and vacations, what furniture to buy for the living room and what movie to watch. I don't need to compromise. On the other hand, I want someone to hug me in the evenings. I'm thinking about having a child. I can raise him alone.
I like the phrase “it’s better to be alone than next to anyone.” I have found harmony in life and am afraid of losing it. My father cheated on my mother, and she tolerated it. That's why it's hard for me to trust men. I'm afraid that I will be manipulated. I don't like conflicts and quarrels. Therefore, the reason for my loneliness is myself. But I’m working on myself: I go to yoga and see a psychoanalyst. Perhaps I will be able to tune in to a more or less long-term relationship.
MURAVYEV: Boris Novoderzhkin joins us, psychologist. Boris Anatolyevich, good evening.
NOVODERZHKIN: Good evening.
METLINA: Boris Anatolyevich, thank you very much for joining us. We know that we are talking to you, you are abroad. However, we are actually talking about the fact that the New Year is approaching, and a huge number of people living in large cities experience an acute feeling of loneliness. They really have no one to celebrate the New Year with.
MURAVYEV: And in general, the New Year is a time for summing up some results, and, probably, for assessing one’s own life activity. In general, it makes many people depressed. Here's what to do about it, what to do?
NOVODERZHKIN: Well, you know, this is such a traditional question, a traditional topic. Every time before the New Year, many people talk about loneliness, and even more so, this is a traditional, for some reason, it would seem, topic for these largest cities, megalopolises. You know, to be honest, I don’t really believe that this problem is so acute now, at least from a technical point of view. Look, if we talk about psychology, there have always been, are and will be people who, at the noisiest party, can hide somewhere in a corner, you know, thereby attracting attention to themselves by their loneliness in this very corner.
MURAVYEV: Yes, there are some.
NOVODERZHKIN: Well, you understand, right? That is, this is a question like this... Well, whoever is looking for something, finds it. But there is a certain moment of provocation in this, and especially, it seems to me, there is a moment of provocation in this when we are talking now in the modern world. Well, we won’t name brands, but you know that there is, in general, worldwide video communication, which is very convenient to use in conference mode. Here I am, for example, last New Year... My wife and children, my family had already moved to live in Bulgaria, and I was still in Moscow, and, in fact, there were options to go to some different companies, and I say: “ No, I will welcome you home with my family.” And so I turned on this very video link in Moscow...
MURAVYEV: That is, via Skype, well, in my own words.
NOVODERZHKIN: Can we call this word?
MURAVYEV: It’s possible, it’s possible, Boris Anatolyevich, it’s possible with us.
METLINA: Boris Anatolyevich, then...
NOVODERZHKIN: Moreover, do you know what is the most amazing thing about the New Year? After all, the New Year comes to different countries at different times. And so I sit, you know, and start with friends from Germany, from Israel, from America, from Ukraine, and all at different times. Absolutely wonderful! What loneliness? Yes, I'm alone. But even, you know, when I leave the room, for example, for a minute, and I have a conference going on here, and I hear - my noisy company seems to be coming in!
METLINA: This is also an option.
MURAVYEV: Boris Anatolyevich, but you are saying that in the noisiest company there is always a little man who will hide in the far corner, and with his loneliness will attract the most beautiful women in fact at this party. But there are people who... Remember the movie “Office Romance”? In general, no one was particularly proud of their loneliness. If a person comes to work and tells how lonely and sad he was watching the president in an empty apartment, that’s one moment. But there are people who don’t talk about this, and then, probably, it’s probably not necessary to say that they somehow attract attention to themselves.
NOVODERZHKIN: Well, if we say that we all know this film, we know how much attention the heroes of this film attracted, but...
MURAVYEV: And the main thing is how it all ended for them. A third boy was born in the Novoseltsev family, you understand.
NOVODERZHKIN: Well, you know, how about... People we don’t know about? Well, let's look for them. Well, where are they? We will probably find such a person where there is no Internet, where there is no connection, in some den in Siberia, or somewhere there...
MURAVYEV: Boris Anatolyevich, it’s good for you to reason from Bulgaria. We don’t have the Internet 10 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, I can assure you!
METLINA: And not everywhere in Moscow.
MURAVYEV: Yes, and in Moscow it’s not everywhere, but electricity is generally the same on holidays. Believe it or not, we should have digital television in 2015.
NOVODERZHKIN: Come on, what happened to Moscow, what do you mean?
METLINA: No, Boris Anatolyevich...
MURAVYEV: The best people are leaving their homeland...
METLINA: Well, when the best people leave, Muravyov and I will leave, turn off the lights at Sheremetyevo. Boris Anatolyevich, nevertheless, you, of course, devoted most of your speech to how well a person can live with the Internet. Don't you think that this is, in general, an extremely dangerous trend? And you probably know that sociologists conducted surveys, and to the questions “Will you go out into the street to demonstrate if your Internet is cut off?” people said: “Yes, I will go out.” But sociologists...
MURAVYEV: And if they turn off the water, I won’t go out.
METLINA: But sociologists did not ask the question “will you go out into the street to demonstrate if your wife leaves you?” No, no one comes out. Crowds of completely lonely happy people walk the streets. But this attachment to silicone wire, especially... Today we discussed the already urban, let’s say, mature population, we discussed the homeless, how they celebrate the New Year. But let’s not forget about the youth, who are already so stuck, so to speak, to these blue monitors that they, too, practically don’t need anyone anymore. And these people are in danger.
NOVODERZHKIN: My grandmother said: “No need to reinvent the wheel! The children will forget how to walk!” Well, wait, first of all, man is still a more or less intelligent creature. Why…
MURAVYEV: Not all, Boris Anatolyevich, not all.
NOVODERZHKIN: Not everything is, well, clear, but I want to hope for the best. Well, after all, the world has changed, whether we like it or not. It’s just, you know, the conversation, the same conversation, if it had taken place on the eve of the millennium, that very year 2000, which we have all been waiting for so long, it would probably have been a little different, precisely in connection with the development of such technical means communications. But again, you are talking about a big city. Well, go outside. Well, what if there is no Internet, no arms, no legs? And How? Well, I have no idea. In general, in fact, this very metropolis... Guys, it turns out that life exists not only in Moscow, you understand. I was born and lived all my life in Moscow...
MURAVYEV: But in the end it turns out that I celebrated the New Year with Odnoklassniki.ru, and Santa Claus put a smiley face under my Christmas tree. That's all.
NOVODERZHKIN: Wait, wait, I somehow lack imagination. I imagine this smiley under the Christmas tree... No, well...
MURAVYEV: But people are talking about how they will celebrate the New Year, welcome 2012, especially since the Mayans predicted that this would be the last New Year, another last New Year. And people are talking about how people will celebrate the New Year online.
NOVODERZHKIN: Well, okay. You know, when people complain... After all, there are some people, this problem that you raise - there are some people who complain about loneliness. Where did they find them, and how did they even say anything about it? Did they run up to you on the street, or where are they, or on the Internet, how did they even announce themselves? Or is it our fantasy that there are these very lonely people somewhere, let’s all go together in search of lonely people this New Year, maybe we’ll dig them up somewhere. This is how they declared themselves, how does a person generally declare his loneliness? This is one of the most interesting paradoxes. How, where did he come from, where did he shout it? In the square he shouted or somewhere, or said to himself under his pillow: “I’m lonely,” and began to cry. And there the parents are standing with gifts, saying: “Come out, come out, we are waiting for you.” “No, you all abandoned me!”
METLINA: Nevertheless, Boris Anatolyevich, concluding our conversation, what is your professional opinion? Why exactly... It’s not for nothing that you started our conversation by talking about how, for some reason, on New Year’s Eve everyone thinks, well, in reality, on New Year’s Eve we all take stock. And why is it so urgent, why does the number of suicides increase during this certain period of time? People really feel what is ahead and what the year will be like. And this theme of loneliness becomes dominant among many people; people do not find a way out. What solution do you suggest?
MURAVYEV: And only devout scoundrels actually believe that next year will be much better than this year.
METLINA: What do you propose?
NOVODERZHKIN: I suggest you think about when you will be... Well, I don’t know how old some are, they are 50, 60, 70, 80 years old. You see, time passes, and a year... Well, I don’t know, if this is a young man who has turned 18, and now he is sad, well, everything is still ahead.
METLINA: All the melancholy is yet to come! Yes Yes Yes.
NOVODERZHKIN: Let me live to be 100 years old, and I’m ready to be more lonely. Well, for example. This is, you know, this is how you look, this is how you look. Well, look at it in a way that would be convenient for you, as it would be pleasant for you. But at the same time, I want to say one important thing, to deceive others - please, you can shout: “Yes, I’m so lonely,” and pack stadiums, but don’t deceive yourself. Now, in order to attract people with your loneliness, you are not required to actually be lonely.
METLINA: Well, yes. Great idea, thank you very much.
MURAVYEV: Boris Novoderzhkin, psychologist. Happy 2012. Let's hope that for the next New Year... Well, Boris Anatolyevich will say that every year this is the traditional theme every time. Well, you know, traditionally for many years they talked about the activities of MMM OJSC. So what? Understand…
METLINA: Nevertheless, gentlemen, in fact, of course, each of us decides how to celebrate the New Year with whom and under what circumstances. Of course, we all take stock. But I would still like to listen to Boris Novoderzhkin, who advised not to deceive yourself. And if you are inclined, so to speak, to introspection, analyze whether this loneliness bothers you. If it doesn’t bother you, stay in this form. And, as Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev said: “We will bury you.” I mean your friends...
ANTS: If you work, for example, as a police sergeant, then you shouldn’t sincerely dream of earning a billion, for example, on New Year’s Eve. Because, firstly, this can threaten with a deadline if you fulfill your desire, and remotivation, that is, such re-instruction of yourself is also harmful, because in the next New Year from 2012 to 2013 it will be hard to remember that you did not fulfill the promise that you made to yourself on this New Year's Eve.
METLINA: And it will be excruciatingly painful. Now…
ANTS: Without fail. Although if you are in the police, you can still be in excruciating pain!
METLINA: Now the news, and then Yuri Pronko and his Realnoe Vremya. Happy New Year.
I am writing this note from a deep hangover. Hands shake, fingers fall on the wrong keyboard buttons. So forgive me for the confusion. And all not for the sake of hooliganism or chronic alcoholism, but only for the sake of the will of the editor who sent me on the assignment. After all, there is such a phenomenon - lonely Muscovites. New Year is just around the corner, and they don’t even have anyone to drink with. But it turned out that the matter was fixable.
- Hello, Vyacheslav? I'm calling you based on an advertisement. I'm looking for a drinking buddy.
The last phrase was the hardest for me. Still, I’m a non-drinker (in general), and at the moment I’m generally sober. And the man specified the address. And within forty minutes I was there. We immediately switched to you.
“You do a good job,” I said on the way to the cafe.
He admitted that he started drinking buddies this winter. There are few clients yet.
We sat near the window and ordered beer. Vyacheslav took a sip from his glass, grunted contentedly and suggested switching to something stronger. The waiter nodded understandingly and a minute later unloaded vodka, sliced lemon, orange juice and herring from the tray. I took out three and a half thousand rubles (yes, communication is not cheap these days) and gave it to my drinking buddy.
“This,” I say, “is for your work.” And then we’ll forget.
Slavka did not count and put the money in his pocket. At first he behaved as if he were taking an exam. He lowered his eyes and didn’t know where to put his hands. But after the third glass he grew bolder and said:
Women are evil.
I hiccupped silently and demanded an explanation.
Nobody knows what they want,” Vyacheslav developed the theme. - I’m forty-one years old. And I am a child compared to a woman. By the way, my wife is a teacher...
If Slava’s speech is reduced to theses, then the general meaning is as follows. There is no love. It was invented by idle poets. But there is chemistry that comes from women and which is stronger than any man. It’s not for nothing that Mayakovsky fell in love with Lilya Brik.
I kept trying to figure out what Slavka did for a living. But he, despite his alcoholic intoxication, resisted to the last. And he refused to elaborate. He only said that a couple of years ago he received a degree in psychology.
- Which university? - I asked.
“What difference does it make,” Slavka answered me. - Why do you need to know that? Imagine that we are just neighbors. We are going to Novy Urengoy.
I imagined.
Slavka chuckled all the way and was in an extremely cheerful mood. What amused him most was that I got divorced a year ago.
I don’t understand why you need to get married,” said Slavka. - So I live in a civil marriage with mine and I don’t complain. So don't rush into this matter. And take yourself not a Muscovite, but some village wench. They are more modest.
ON THE HIGHWAY
How much money have we wasted?
We drank the last one. I also had to pay the bill. And it turned out to be quite big.
To be honest, I don’t remember how much anything cost or exactly how much we ate and drank. I - a liter of beer and a bottle of vodka. He - 0.5 beer and a bottle of vodka. Orange juice. Two servings of potatoes with herring. Lemon slicing. Two servings of beef. Two servings of croutons. It seems that's it. And as if from a bush, 4000 rubles. Plus 3500 for the service. Total: 7500 - for a dubious conversation with a bad psychologist and a headache the next morning. By the way, if you call a “drinking buddy” on New Year’s Eve, you will have to pay three times more for the service alone - more than 10 thousand. After all, you have no one, and all your “drinking buddies” have families.
AND WHAT ELSE
We skate, sit in the lotus position
Dina KARPITSKAYA
My colleague Pavel Klokov was disappointed in the “drinking buddy” service. I offer singles more optimistic options for celebrating the New Year
New Year is a holiday full of signs, rituals and attributes. Some perceive it as a “family” event, while others believe that it is unthinkable without a big company. But there are situations when you realize that this time you have no one to celebrate the New Year with. There could be many reasons for this: your parents left for their company, your friends gathered at home, in their families, you quarreled with your lover... or you are simply alone at this moment, your plans fell through for reasons beyond your control.
Or maybe you’re completely unsettled and you don’t want to go anywhere, but you never know for any reason? But is it worth making a tragedy out of this?
There are many options for how to spend the New Year interestingly alone. But first of all, what you definitely shouldn’t do.
Remember what the great Omar Khayyam said: “It’s better to be alone than with just anyone”? That is, you should not go to some random company that is absolutely uninteresting to you, just for the sake of “celebrating with someone.” Or urgently look for a companion to celebrate the New Year on the Internet - the latter can be simply dangerous.
Getting drunk alone to the point of insensibility with the thought “oh, let it all go to waste.”
Stupidly, aimlessly staring at the TV all night, languidly clicking on the buttons.
To cherish a complex of one’s own uselessness and to be offended by the whole world.
Feel sorry for yourself.
To believe - in this case - that how you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it. That is, do not put a program inside yourself for eternal loneliness.
And in general, you shouldn’t succumb to all the hackneyed New Year’s stereotypes.
Here's what you need.
Take all the advantages from the current situation. You can watch whatever you want on TV, eat whatever you want.
And in general, understand that you are in an unusual, but interesting position in its own way. This may not happen again!
Remember that many people celebrate New Year at work. Among them are meteorologists from aviation weather stations, ambulance doctors, police officers, television workers on duty, railway workers, and you never know who else!
And now - some possible scenarios for celebrating alone.
So, the first option is New Year's Eve at home. There are plenty of options here.
The first one is traditional. That is, you celebrate the New Year approximately in the same way as you would celebrate it with your family, but just alone. You can dress up yourself and decorate the Christmas tree, set the table with your favorite light snacks and delicacies, at midnight, as expected, pour yourself champagne, write a wish on a piece of paper and burn the note with the last strike of the chimes. And then take a gift from under the tree, which may include an item that you have long dreamed of and finally bought (you need to take care of this in advance), accept congratulations, and then... do what you want. You can watch TV, and no one will force you to stare at Pugacheva and Galkin, as relatives could do. Or you can leave the assigned New Year's television space and watch your favorite films... Or listen to music that you have long wanted to enjoy in peace and quiet. Or even take up something you haven’t gotten around to doing for a long time. For example, sort through your photo archive - it can be exciting. You will be enveloped in a haze of memories. And you can wash the dishes later. Yes, and there will be little of it.
In the bathroom
Do you like to lie in the bath? Then this option is for you. Nobody encourages you to lie in it all New Year's Eve, but that very first glass of champagne can be drunk while lying in the water, among aromas and incense, after peeling and other pleasant procedures. Fun and angry! Just remember that you shouldn’t drink more than one glass in the bathroom!
In the Internet
Are you an avid networker? Well, you can throw yourself a virtual New Year. If you have Skype installed on your computer along with a video camera, then you can, to some extent, feel the presence of your interlocutor in your apartment. It’s a good idea to communicate, for example, with foreign friends who do not sleep, but in whose habitat the New Year may not be given such importance, with acquaintances and relatives from other cities. This is a holiday with a geographical twist. As you know, you can even drink on Skype by holding your glasses up to the screen. And there are also blogs. The blogosphere may be somewhat empty on a holiday compared to ordinary days, but some of your virtual friends will probably be there. Tested by my own experience!
On the phone
Remember the old days. It is quite possible that, in addition to active contacts on your mobile phone, you still have a couple of notebooks from earlier times. Call everyone you love! The New Year is a great opportunity to renew old contacts and relationships. Some people call strangers on New Year's Day and congratulate them on the holiday. This is, of course, interesting, but alas, in our society there are many boors and slow-witted people.
In a dream
And if you don’t want anything, you can finally go to bed, telling yourself that, in essence, this is the same night as all the others. The only thing is that the noise of firecrackers outside the window and other signals of celebration may prevent you from going into the arms of Morpheus.
On a journey
If you have enough financial resources and have realized it in advance, go somewhere. However, if you didn’t even realize it in advance, there are finally last-minute travel packages. But where to go depends on your capabilities and wishes. Warm, exotic countries can be a good option for a solo New Year's voyage - there are no usual holiday attributes such as a Christmas tree, snow, etc., which means there is no such New Year's excitement. But there is sea, sun and heat. Accordingly, you can safely “disconnect”. It’s about the same with European countries, where Catholic Christmas is celebrated en masse, and the New Year is not given much importance. In general, you can go anywhere - to a ski resort, to a romantic European city, or, in the end, to the Suzdal tourist complex, nearby Belarus, or even to a spa center somewhere in a village near Kurzeme. Any hotel has a festive New Year's program, which you can join by becoming a full-fledged participant. The only point: the hotel must be chosen correctly - it should not be separate cottages where vacationers celebrate the holiday in “their own corners”.
In transport
In Ekaterina Vilmont's work "Cinema and the Germans" there is a lonely heroine who every year on the evening of December 31st boarded the Moscow-St. Petersburg train, spent the night on the train, and during the next day enjoyed her favorite city, after which she followed the same route back . However, for her friends she composed a legend about her St. Petersburg aunt.
It is not necessary to come up with such excuses, but this move can be used. There is something romantic about the New Year's journey, especially since passengers on such trains, due to the limited space, unite and celebrate the holiday cheerfully. So it’s probably better to take a ticket for a reserved seat carriage, for greater unity. A variety of people travel on trains on New Year's Eve - both those who purposefully wanted to celebrate the New Year on a trip, and those who just happened to do so. Do you remember the episode with the man sitting at the airport from Ryazanov’s comedy “The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath”?
By the way, you can buy a train ticket directly on December 31st much cheaper than at usual times.
Ideally, the train should depart between 20.00 and 23.00 - so as not to wait long for the holiday, but at the same time to make easy preparations for it. The route, if you are traveling for one day, should not be particularly long.
And if you feel that you are not able to walk around the city without a break after a sleepless night on the train, extend your trip by renting a hotel room for one day.
In a club or restaurant
Look through the poster and find a New Year's program to your liking. You will not be left alone in such places. The only thing is that you need to take some, so to speak, precautions: go to a trusted place, having first read reviews and recommendations. And do not leave the club, that is, do without adventures.
On the street
One of my single acquaintances told me how wonderful he once celebrated New Year’s Eve on the Crimean Bridge - how Moscow shone with lights and how he and other people from the crowd joyfully clinked champagne in disposable cups. In fact, many people come to “iconic places” on New Year’s Eve and there is general street rallying. The only thing is to choose truly iconic places - Dome Square for Riga residents, and the main square of the city for everyone else, an observation deck, and so on. This will be both more meaningful and safer. And to make it more fun, stock up on champagne or a thermos with hot drink, a couple of tangerines, sparklers and decorate yourself with New Year's tinsel.
This New Year's Eve will be followed by the next one, and then another and another... And you may meet them alone with your lover or in wonderful company.
But at the same time, it is possible that the memory of an amazing lonely New Year’s Eve will remain one of the brightest episodes of your life.
