Don’t get me wrong–I love a good night out just as much as the next person. But I also love staying in. I love sleeping, I love watching Netflix, I love catching up with my friends from home and I love reading. You can’t exactly do any of those things comfortably while wearing a tight, sweaty outfit, with makeup streaming down your cheeks, and random people pushing you around a loud, cramped room.
Fear of Missing Out, or “FOMO,” may be the reason why some of us feel that we need to head out to a party, even when we really aren’t feeling it. We convince ourselves that maybe it will be fun when we get there, and how much it will suck if we miss all of our friends’ crazy stories about the night, when the highlight of our night involved finally figuring out who ‘A’ is on Pretty Little Liars.Â
The idea that staying in will hurt your chances of having a good time is as far from true as it gets. If you want to watch Legally Blonde for the umpteenth time, why shouldn’t you? Do what makes you happy. Whenever I forego an already-planned night of cuddling up in bed and binge-watching Criminal Minds in favor of going out to a party that I never really even wanted to go to in the first place, I usually find myself filled with a sense of unease. That’s never an enjoyable feeling.Â
My bottom line is, nothing should get in the way of your happiness, and you should never do something that you feel uncomfortable about. If you have a really bad feeling about a party that your friends want you to go to, just let them know and say something along the lines of, “I don’t want to go out tonight. I hope you guys have fun though!”Â
And then you can relax and do whatever you were hoping to do!