Planning for a party or get-together is a big challenge these days. On a high level it doesn't look too difficult - you just have to decide a venue and time and then let others know - pretty simple right? Wrong! Lets take the things one by one.
1) Venue - If people really want to come the venue doesn't matter. True. But these days people are so busy that they don't want to travel too much. So you have to chose a venue that falls somewhere in the middle for everyone who you plan to invite.
2) Time - The same could be said about time - if one wants to attend something he/she will find time. But people have so many things to do that they can only offer a time slot in which to fit in the get-together.
3) Inviting people - Some people would be too busy to talk; some would need to take permission from various sources; some people would already have a lot of work to do on that day.
So you see its not so easy to organize a get-together. And if you somehow manage to come up with a plan fulfilling all the constraints people would come up with last minute excuses. Some would fall sick, some would have some urgent work to attend to which they had no idea of earlier, some would be too tired to come. etc. And the worst part of it all is that the people who back out in the end are the people who would come up with let's meet sometime thing. They would be so eager to meet everyone that they would say that they would come no matter what. And then they would back out in the very last minute.
I don't understand why these people say so when they have no intention of attending the meet. I mean you need not say that you don't want to meet, just don't have to talk about it. But no; they have to show their interest only for the sake of showing that they care.
Recently I had been involved in 3 get-togethers. The first one involved my school friends last Saturday. It was a working day for me. One of my friend had come to the town and was to leave on Sunday, so Saturday was the only day we could meet. I don't drive so he offered to drop me home if we got late. We met at around 8:15 PM at India Gate. Then we went to CP where we met 2 more friends. Another friend who was on a date came down around 11:30 PM to meet us. It was great fun being together after a very long time and it was fun. I felt that when you really want to meet a friend you can take that time out and make the effort.
The 2nd one didn't went as expected with 2 of the friends not turning up at all and a 3rd friend making a sort of guest appearance. But the other 2 friends did stay for long and we had a good time going back to the college days and going on till future. And the friends who stayed long - one of them is doing part time MBA and came straight from his college after giving 3 exams; while the other who is married had gone out the day before and could have rested this day but chose to come. It again pointed that there are friends who really want to meet.
The 3rd get-together actually happened today and it was fun in more ways than one. First I thought we were going for dinner but it turned out to be something else. Then you got to know them better and got to know something new about them. And this we had to have between our office hours. While one of the friends stayed late for this others had to stretch their working hours to make this happen. I think nothing more needs to be said.
Sometimes it really feels good to be surrounded with these friends.
The post seems to be mentioning 2 things - 1) having fun in get-togethers with friends who make sure they are part of it 2) people who just say they would like to meet but usually don't come.
When I started writing the post I wanted to stress more on the 2nd kind of people but ended up talking about the 1st kind. And I guess it is worth it because you got to care about people with whom you have good time. When I started writing this I thought the 1st party was good the 2nd could have been better while the 3rd wouldn't happen. All 3 happened and now I think I would take either of the 3 any day as there's nothing like being with friends and enjoying. So even though planning for a get-together is difficult it is worth the effort if you have friends like I mentioned above.
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