{"id":27770,"date":"2021-05-17T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bagsoflove.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27770"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:37:13","slug":"when-people-dont-show-up-at-your-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bagsoflove.co.uk\/blog\/when-people-dont-show-up-at-your-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"When people don&#8217;t show up at your birthday party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Birthday parties are a pretty big deal. A lot goes into the planning of it, you make sure you invite everyone, prepare the food, decorate the place and make sure you have plenty of drinks in. So it&#8217;s understandable to be a little miffed when people don&#8217;t show up at your birthday party &#8211; even more so when everyone bails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Coming To Terms With It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s be fair, when people don&#8217;t show up at your birthday party, you&#8217;re not going to instantly think &#8220;ah, that&#8217;s right &#8211; nobody is coming&#8221;. It&#8217;s gonna take a little minute to wrap your head around it, and that&#8217;s a journey. You&#8217;re gonna feel things along the way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>The initial shock<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll have a moment of disbelief, as you watch that clock tick over to your party&#8217;s start time, and there isn&#8217;t a barrage of knocks at your door. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/57ZvMMkuBIVMlU88Yh\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>The moment of denial<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you realise that nobody is actually there, they aren&#8217;t hiding to jump out and surprise you, you still don&#8217;t necessarily believe they aren&#8217;t coming, just that they aren&#8217;t there <em><strong>yet<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com\/media\/6v0AOu72sabss\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"221\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Then the guilt sets in<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so, nobody is there, nobody is coming. Wait, is it your fault when people don&#8217;t show up at your birthday party?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/4T1Bbj4bEQQrY7BD1w\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"180\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>It&#8217;s time to get mad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not right, it can&#8217;t be you. They are just not fair. They said they were going to come and they didn&#8217;t. How dare they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/IVDYYv6Cto6LS\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"261\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>You&#8217;ve never felt so lonely and sad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The anger has dissipated, and you look around and realise that there is nobody there, and you&#8217;re all alone&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/n4FSXlTBaRN2E\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"211\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>You&#8217;ll do anything<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You sit there and try and convince yourself that next time it will be different, you&#8217;ll change how you are, you&#8217;ll invite more people, you&#8217;ll do pretty much anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com\/media\/Jf0RSDCmhVixO\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"210\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Time to accept it<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time to just accept the thing. People don&#8217;t show up at your birthday party and it&#8217;s very sad, but it is nevertheless what has happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/9PeO1Sg5CGmHF5VMzF\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>So, Now What?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so you&#8217;ve accepted the sad truth that is people don&#8217;t show up at your birthday party. But, what next? You&#8217;ve done all the prep work after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Move on<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right, you need to move on. Enjoy yourself, it is your birthday after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com\/media\/G31F1kDElUhe8\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"241\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Celebrate your trip around the sun<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a day to celebrate. Thank yourself for being there, you were after all the only one who made the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/ujCQhN8MKzlTi\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"239\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Eat all that cake<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All of it, I mean why not? It&#8217;s not a birthday without cake, so have the cake &#8211; you can even eat it from the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/3oEhmNLxk9uiTbL9Be\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"202\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Get drunk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You literally have enough alcohol for a whole crowd. Even when people don&#8217;t show, you might as well put it to some good use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/9oIsb58Vfsro37pvK3\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"270\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Play some party games<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking about it, you might need to be a little selective here, but there are some games you can still play even when nobody shows up at your birthday party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/10htoZz7rhLZ6w\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Dance the night away<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The joy of this is that you don&#8217;t need to choose your music to please the room. Put on your favourite jam, and dance all night long. 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