Kia-Elise Green, 22, decided to shake things up this holiday season and embrace a more social lifestyle, trading her early bedtime for late nights out. Read her humorous account of navigating hangovers and the joys (and challenges) of joining the party.
Kia-Elise Green, 22, was fed up of being the 'boring' sober friend, so this festive season she swapped her 8pm bedtime for 1am nights out.It’s just hit 4pm on a Sunday afternoon, and I haven’t moved from the mound of blankets I’ve been buried under since waking up five hours earlier. I am in the midst of one of only three hangovers I’ve ever had, and to be frank I don’t know how boomers deal with this. Or, for that matter, people my own age who drink on a regular basis.
than a party; I go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 5am, and, before this year, could count on one hand the number of times I’d had a sip of alcohol. It just didn’t interest me: the loss of control, the next-day hanxiety, the hazy memory of the embarrassing things I did when it was four hours past my bedtime – none of that was for me. Even when I went to party island Ibiza last year I was tucked into bed – stone cold sober – by 10pm.I never had a problem being the “boring” family member, or with my parents going out more than me, but in summer this year, something changed. I got the bug to just. I needed to give it a proper chance. I decided to stop being so uptight and enjoy my youth like my grandparents did – in a pub or club, dancing the night away. Did I really want to get to retirement age having zero stories to tell of when I was young, stupid and drunk? So far, the only stories I have to tell my grandchildren are that I was sensible and careful, and thought everything through before I did it. So I started going out a little more. Granted, that only meant one or two glasses of wine at events or dinners, which got me no closer to these coveted fond memories other than I’d spent twice the amount on fizz than my usual Diet Coke.was my chance, and I decided to do it in true boomer style. I gave myself a month and decided, for once, to not decline every invitation (and drink) offered to me. My first night on 30 November was a work do of my friend
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