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  • recently, I've been pushing myself to go to parties even when I have to go, E no.

  • I know Wanting to go to a party alone is like someone who willingly walks the plague.

  • I hope you are prepared to meet your watery grave, watery grave.

  • Well, do you think like, I'm gonna meet my husband down there?

  • What?

  • No one is the ocean down there.

  • You're just gonna die?

  • Like maybe there's a merman and he's, like, really cute.

  • And he gives me mouth to mouth and drags me to a rock and a really nice, long conversation.

  • That's definitely not gonna happen.

  • The only thing you're gonna meet down there is death.

  • I mean, certain painful, suffering filled.

  • Dad, do you think my health?

  • That looks cute.

  • Oh, my gosh.

  • I'm so nervous.

  • Okay, I'm just gonna do it.

  • I'm just gonna do it by insane.

  • I know.

  • Usually I am the kind of person hovering at the snack table.

  • You know, Asian parties always have food, riel, food, like none of this white people.

  • Menagerie of mediocrity, Great party.

  • Such a such a array of things I never thought of or I'm chilling with house pet.

  • Well, it's been seven minutes, so I guess it's pumpkin time.

  • It's pumpkin time.

  • Good bye.

  • It was nice to meet you because the anxiety of standing at a party alone, looking at the groups of people all talking and enjoying themselves when you don't know a single soul at the social encounter.

  • So you're just forced to stare at your phone where you have no messages, but you can pretend that you're too immersed in Twitter.

  • I have time to talk to anyone know unsubscribe.

  • I would rather be at home in bed, but not anymore.

  • This is the crucial moment.

  • This right here is the prime time sports ball reference where you have to make it or break it, do the thing to be the champion of the other thing.

  • If you are similarly introverted like myself, this will be one of the hardest things you ever have to dio.

  • Hi, I'm Anna.

  • I don't really know anyone here, so I thought I'd introduce myself.

  • How do you guys all know each other?

  • I know it's gross, right?

  • The idea of having to put yourself on the line like that is terrifying, but I now follow one simple and easy rule to have a fulfilling solo party night.

  • That rule is drum roll Children.

  • He genuinely interested in getting to know someone, anyone, just one person.

  • So last Friday, I went to three parties alone.

  • Oh, my God.

  • I know.

  • And I vowed that each one I would learn just one thing about one person, and they actually interested in hearing what they had to say.

  • You know what?

  • Just by asking people questions about themselves.

  • People love talking about themselves.

  • But if you do it with genuine curiosity, you will have such great conversations.

  • Dude, you don't know about Ida Lewis.

  • Let me tell you all about her.

  • She was an American lighthouse keeper who gained fame in the late 18 hundreds.

  • For all of these heroic rescues, Dude, she sounds so cool.

  • I don't know.

  • My girlfriend and I were long distance for like, yeah, and now that we're finally in the same town, I feel like she's self sabotaging the relationship.

  • Oh, yeah, that's pretty rough.

  • Why do you think that ISS?

  • Yeah, that's why people's allergies air worse every year because we're on Lee planting male trees.

  • There's no female trees to soak up the pollen.

  • Wow!

  • Are you a tree scientist?

  • Is there even such a thing?

  • I challenge you to try it.

  • Go to a party alone.

  • Introduce yourself.

  • Ask questions.

  • Be curious.

  • Let me know how it goes.

  • Eso like what are we a little Jakey?

  • I don't really care, but ideo like what are we?

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recently, I've been pushing myself to go to parties even when I have to go, E no.

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