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May 09, 2004 20:59

I feel as if I'm a 50 year old stuck in a 19 year old's body.

I'd rather stay at home and watch a movie then go out and get drunk.

I'd rather have nachos and beer with a good friend/sister or 3 than go to a crowded party, get trashed, and not remember what I did the night before, or who I spoke to, or who I met.

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bluefishie May 9 2004, 19:01:02 UTC

eeep!
Don't call me boring.
I've been clubbing once since turning 19. So? For a good time I like to go to a bar for a drink or two and watch the game. AND I'VE BEEN AWAY FROM HOME FOR 8 MONTHS!! This is not boring. Being 19 doesn't have to mean acting like an asshole all the time. No, quarter life crisis is something else entirely.

bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... thecariefariee May 9 2004, 19:11:16 UTC

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you ( ... )

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... bluefishie May 10 2004, 08:47:51 UTC

Read that last paragraph of what you posted. I don't see why this is called a "crisis" since it's so entirely normal. Everyone replying to your post feels the same way as you and really it's not that remarkable because, again, it's so normal. You've been in rez mainly on weekends...yeah, lots of drunken partying. At first. Then we got bored of it, cause really, are you going to do that every weekend? By the end of the year our floor was doing it maybe once a month and instead studying and writing papers all the time, or having movie/hockey nights.
AND, as Jen said, rez is SO NOT normal. It's a way fucked up situation. Living on a floor with 30 other teenagers, in a building with 800 more? No parents? On a campus where everyone is within 4 years of each other? All students? Not in the least normal.
Growing up is not a crisis.

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... thecariefariee May 10 2004, 11:30:15 UTC

THe last time I was in rez at Queens was March, and believe me there was plently of drunkeness going on... even during exams in December AND April... apparently new rez is actually al-anon on crack.

On a campus where everyone is within 4 years of each other? All students? Not in the least normal.

This is normal. The new normal. The whole idea of being at university is to be on a campus where everyone is within 4 years of each other, at least the undergrads. In 3 years when you have to leave, it will have become normal to be on a campus where everyone's pretty much around the same age ( ... )

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... bluefishie May 10 2004, 11:51:00 UTC

well this whole conversation's not exactly about rez, but having been there, from what I felt it was a weird situation. I felt this because I am used to having a variety of people around me. I am not used to living in one room. The way I acted, the things I did, were so different from what I had been used to ( ... )

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... batman May 10 2004, 17:03:44 UTC

Don't think you're lacking as a person because of this BULLSHIT with Alistair ( ... )

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... thecariefariee May 10 2004, 19:19:17 UTC

I wasn't calling those people "abnormal". Not at all. I was calling MYSELF abnormal ( ... )

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... batman May 11 2004, 17:08:22 UTC

I'm sorry if I sounded like a mega bitch. I shouldn't have commented when I was in a bad mood, and I'm sorry I took it out on you. I didn't really mean a lot of what I said, I really just meant that you shouldn't let everything you've seen with Alistair (and your other friends) get you down, or make you think you're less than what you are. There's no "normal", and there's nothing you're supposed to be. I think you're super.

I also didn't mean to suggest that you watch reality TV, that was just the first thing that came to mind when I thought of "college life" or whatever you want to call it... I see those ads all the time. I know you're a smart girl.

You're not ignorant, I'm just a thoughtless bitch.

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... thecariefariee May 12 2004, 15:06:26 UTC

You're NOT a mega bitch, and I didn't take it that way, so no worries. Everyone here is entitled to their opinions, and if I wasnt curious as to what they were I wouldnt have posted in hopes to receive opinions like yours ( ... )

Re: bolded is what I feel/am experiencing... thecariefariee May 11 2004, 16:41:20 UTC

PS: I spelled that wrong ON PURPOSE :)

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