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People don’t want to spend New Year at home anymore
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Given the fact that New Year celebrations have taken on an entirely different avatar, nobody is in denial that an increasing number of people prefer partying at a club or a hotel, breaking away from the tradition of spending New Year’s Eve at
home with one’s own kin.
The hotel industry is teeming with activity, considering that scores of people, especially corporate employees favour heralding the New Year at hotels around the city. For a call centre employee, this is probably the only time of the year when he can actually make plans and this implies heading towards a resort or a hotel. “When we are given only a day off from work for New Year, it is pointless to go back home and spend time with our families. The friends we make here are our new families now and it would be wrong if we deprived ourselves of partying,” says this guy. “By the time one turns 18, friends occupy a more important place than parents in most teenagers’ lives. We also feel the need to do something different and that would mean hanging out with buddies and partying,” says Venu G. He however, feels that “this is only a passing phase and that when a teenager finally begins his own family he would obviously revert to traditional celebration.”
Is it only Gen X that supports this development whole heartedly? “Of course not!” retorts a retired lecturer, Manoraj Mahadev. This is the cycle of life. At different stages one’s priorities in society changes. We are bound to expect as well as adopt such modifications.
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