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Parties Parties Parties/ Shots Shots Shots

It’s Halloween weekend…Mad parties…But despite the title, it’s not what you think I’ll be writing about.

Yeah, I have pictures of me “pregaming” in my friends’ room, etc, but you know what, I’m done with that deal along time ago, and I’m not gonna post it just so that I look cool or whatever.

A lot of people might be surprised to know this, but I don’t drink. I don’t drink not because I’m religious or whatever. I don’t drink just because I don’t feel like it’s my style but that doesn’t mean that I don’t like to have fun. To be honest, I’m much more fun when i don’t drink—I just get sleepy when I drink, and what’s the fun in that? I feel like I’m outgoing as it is, and I’m as high on life as I’m gonna get—and I do want to remember what I did that night. Am I being really old fashioned?

See, my first year of college, I went rager, cuz I’ve never been to a college party and I had to go through that bullshitting to get where I am today. So, I understand and that’s why I try to stay away from freshmen…been there, done that, and over it ages ago, kiddo. But, freshmen or not, it  just seems like most college students are holding the red cup with every chance they can get. Party, toga, party. I get it. You have mad stress from cramming last minute exams, whatever, and you wanna party it off. Nothing wrong seriously—I like to have fun, too. But I just keep wondering why people, especially college students have come to rely solely on alcohol as the only way to escape their lives and have fun. I’ve been told that it’s liquid courage and makes people more attractive. But it also gives so many people the excuse to, as T Pain says it, blame it on the alcohol. But it’s not funny anymore when girls keep getting transported one after another.

Some people have treat their girlfriend/boyfriend, friend badly and just like a dumbass the next day, only to say “Sorry babe, it was the alcohol.”

My theory is, you don’t blame things on shit. Sure, the alcohol might have gotten you intoxicated and made you do stupid things—but you ultimately knew what you were doing when you made that decision to drink. The alcohol didn’t make you do something you didn’t want to do—it was already in you, and it just had to be let out somehow. If you’re gonna do something, do it, and don’t use a scapegoat. I would have more respect for you.

Be a person and own up to your consequences. But if you’re a guy who can only get a girl when she’s drunk, or if you’re a girl who can only have sex when you’re drunk, then you both got a lot of issues to work on. Or that they only to open up to people is to drink, then you really should work on your self-confidence. You should work on it when you’re not inebriated. Otherwise, it just become a vicious cycle. Work on whatever insecurities or problems at home that is bothering you instead of running away from it. Why do you think people become alcoholics? Everybody got issues…we live in this paradoxical society…but it doesn’t matter who has more issues than another… it’s how you handle your issues…Try facing your problems instead of keep running away from it.

But hey—college is the time do do stupid things right? Get it out of your system, before you can’t do it anymore? It’s only fun and games, let people be. I get it. But soon, you’ll eventually have to face your problems and become an adult. This is not something I really judge or frown upon—about the drinking part. I guess I already made my mistakes and matured too quickly…and now this is the applicant pools that I have to surround myself with. But I have faith that there are more people out there like me, too, so sometimes, I don’t feel so alone.

Everyone is claiming that they’re having a good time, but deep down inside, I know they’re not. They’re just a bunch on insecure young adults trying to fit in as they try to figure themselves out who they are, and their places in their life.

Until then, the girl who is dancing on tables in front of me and the obnoxious group of people who are making so much noise screaming for attention—I’ll be thinking of how entertaining hey are from a sober point of view.

This is why grandpa is gonna keep doing his own thing cuz college kids are just too much for him to handle right now. It’s not you…it’s definitely me.

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