I feel so old...
Booty shake contests are OLD and STUPID. They're played out... who cares?
I feel like an old person anymore. I'm only 22, almost 23 years old and the club/partying scene disgusts me already. I guess I'm glad I got everything out of my system back when I was 18-19, but now I feel like I SHOULD be wanting to party, only instead I actually LIKE staying home. I like renting Blockbuster movies and curling up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn, or going to the zoo or museums, or hanging out with family.
When we went to that party over the weekend I wasn't really feeling it, I'm glad we left when we did. I've never played beer pong in my life and I played one game, and I just didn't see what the big hype of it was. There are 14 year olds out there who are probably better at beer pong than me, which is sad, but I never cared to play it. I think it's because I figure what is being good at beer pong going to get me in life? Nothing. It's not going to help me save money for my future, it's not going to help me earn a degree or a well-paying job, it won't help me raise a family later on in life... I also don't see the point of partying every night of the week and getting drunk all the time... the way I see it, obviously your life must suck pretty bad when you're sober if you are only able to enjoy it while being drunk. And if that's the case, then you should do something about it instead of turn to wasting all your money on alcohol and sleeping with all of your friends every night of the week and coming in to work the next day hungover and wondering why you have no money left to put gas in your car to even get to work until the next paycheck comes... but again, that's just me.
Like this one guy I work with, he's had about 2-3 cars in the past YEAR since we've been back from deployment, and he wrecked 2 already, and comes in every day to work complaining about how in debt he is from credit cards and car payments, yet this past weekend he went out and bought a BRAND NEW 2008 Dodge Ram truck. If you're that much in debt... common sense would be to buy a cheaper used car and pay it off, build your credit back up, and quit going out drinking every night of the week. But he HAD to have the brand new truck. As soon as he drove it off the lot the value of it went down a couple thousand dollars, which sucks for him. And his driving history is so bad, I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up wrecking this new truck.
Maybe I shouldn't worry so much about other people, but it kinda scares me if this is the way society is now, it makes me wonder if I'm not normal and being drunk every night and in debt IS the norm... it scares me that if I have kids one day they'll have to grow up around this bullshit and be influenced by irresponsible peers...
I guess this is one of those subjects I just feel very passionately about, I will never be able to understand some people's ways of thinking, but go ahead and call me old.
I gotta go pick up Jon from work now...