My aunt found this website that hosts a collection of "texts you shouldn't have sent last night." The concept is pretty simple--someone gets super drunk, sends a text to someone, and that someone posts it on that website. I'll admit, a lot of the things that show up there are pretty funny, in a sad, strange kind of way. I will say, for anyone that has the urge to go check it out, it is largely not safe for work/parents/people who will be looking over your shoulder who are prudent.
My uncle reads this site often, and the other day he mentioned that he feels like he's missed out on some great part of his youth, because he doesn't have crazy stories like the ones he reads there.
I've been through my first year of college and I had fun--but I never was so drunk that I couldn't remember what I did, or did something I regretted. I don't have stories like that and I really don't feel like I missed out on anything at ALL. I guess I want to know what is behind the idea that we have to do stupid things in order to have fun? I notice this among my peers as well. Am I alone in thinking that fun doesn't have to be dangerous or disgusting? What happened to the days when we were imaginative, like in dannysrider's latest blog? (
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/53050-time-flies) Why cant fun still be orange fights, or making nests from grass, or mixing all the leftovers from your plate and the condiments from the table and paying your brother to drink it? Why does it have to be getting completely wasted, sleeping with someone you barely know, puking all of the next morning?
I did have a friend in the beginning of college--we roller skated together. We also got the girls together for what we called, "America's Next Top Model Night" where we put on flamboyant makeup, messed up our hair, and made outfits entirely out of trash bags, just so we could run around in the middle of the night. So sure, I know people can have non-alcohol related fun. But I'll tell you what: if you asked her to choose between booze and trash bag night, she'd pick the booze.
It's really sad that people are this way. I had to move out of the dorms on campus because everyone was drunk all the time, and I didn't like it. It makes me extremely uncomfortable to be around alcohol and drunk people, and then they go and do really stupid things.
For me and my new roommate, fun is jumping on the El to se where it takes us, spontaneously going out for ice cream, enjoying the swings in the park, and wandering wherever our feet will take us. We're just silly, and we like it that way because not only is it more memorable... we can actually remember it the next day.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
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Ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!!!
"Am I alone in thinking that fun doesn't have to be dangerous or disgusting?"
Nope. I too have often wondered this. I live in the dorms during the week and it feels like everybody is either drunk or promiscuos or just doing stupid crap. I count myself among the lucky few who isn't interested in any of that.