Originally posted by punknaynowned
No no no!! go to as many parties as you possibly can bonny and scott!! Stay up all night, every night and Drink as much beer and spirits as you
possibly can, for as long as you can! Consume mass quantities!! Then Retch it all up and begin again!!! Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that
doesn't care!
Seriously, I live in a college town in 'the great american midwest' and most of these students, their only idea of 'a good time' is to get hammered.
In fact, it really has been that way in all my adult life and I've lived all over the us, both coasts, north, south, urban, rural, whatever. America
drinks. Not only that, but the generation before me started doing copious amounts of illegal drugs to the point that everyone at least knows or has
known or was someone who 'spent years' doing that. Drug use remains widespread. They make fun of it on tv, not that the behavior is stupid, but that
the laws are stupid and are broken all over with a wink and a nod, unless someone official who's job it is to enforce that stuff happens to show up.
And that the behavior is little more than a 'choice'. Maybe a dangerous choice, but dangerous mostly because what might happen if you get caught --
the law-- not get 'in an accident'. I know enough to know that there is nothing down that road that is not knowable through other means. But because
of my travels, I can more easily communicate understanding, empathy with such folk and thereby my word MAY be more influential with them in dire
circumstances than that of someone without those experiences. This is my humble experience.
Please hear my plea! |