Are you missing out on life if you don't party ?

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I am seem to think that probably everybody has at some point gone to crazy parties and clubs and get drunk even those people who don't see it has their ''thing'' like me. To be honest, I have never got drunk on alcohol and only went to one nightclub to see a family friend's friend playing in a band on stage and I found it uncomfortable with all the flashing lights and stuff and stayed outside most of the night I was there. I feel if I was to do these things again at 31 after this pandemic its too late even though as I said its not for me. I seem to think it is a MUST-DO requirement for young people to have a good time and have fun and it annoys me that those who I don't like the partying at a club and stuff are seen as ''sad'' and ''weird'' and ''loners who will never find a man or a woman''.

Nah, more so the other way.

As long as you're having fun though.

I do not feel like I am missing out on something at all. When I have talked to those partiers, I don't find they have actually had any more of a rewarding life than I have, just more hangovers.

I look back on my clubbing days with fond memories. They were pretty care free. There is no right answer though. If you don't enjoy it then it is not like you have missed out.

Parties, as far as I'm concerned, is like another form of tasting. A social form of taste.

So what if you don't like the kind with flashing lights and blaring audios, with drinks and the apparent pointlessness of taking risks with a room full of strangers?

Maybe you like somewhere simpler, less offending to the senses, with a purpose and only with people of closer relations?

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I have been told I am missing out, but missing out on what? A nights torture and horrible sickness and headaches in the morning? No thanks!

Night clubs and similar parties can go one of 3 ways:
1 You enjoy it and learn to enjoy it in moderation. A good chunk of the population are like that in youth.
2 You hate it and never go back or only go back to be polite on hen/stag nights and similar.
3 You enjoy it way too much and become a binge drinker.

If you don't enjoy any parties, again, that's your choice/your life. Although it's more unusual. Did you like parties as a kid? Have you tried costume parties, dinner parties, murder mystery parties, games nights? There's all sorts of parties and some of them I like and some I hate.

I did not like parties as a kid. Actually I hated parties. Small parties with three or four people are ok.
Is like wedding parties. I have been out of respect but I usually go early if I can.

My biggest regret was this stupid FOMO as a young person developing a fear of missing out.

Parties are incredibly overrated and a waste of precious time. It's an exercise in collective narcissism.

How do you know you weren't already partying? Sometimes it's not so obvious.

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Parties irrespective whether they take place in night clubs, bars, discos or at any hierarchical institution are the auditory circle of hell. I was never destined for these sort of societal conformative practices thankfully, so no I am certainly not missing my life by excommunicating from them. Although the only situation I would forcibly choose to attend such a party is over a masquerade ball ceremony (big no no).