Living Life, The Two Extremes
A lot of us would agree with the statement "Live life to the best of your abilities". However, there are two types of people who seem to take this quote to extreme. Some will literally go out party every weekend till they die at the ripe old age of 23. Others will live till they're 94, yet, they may regret not having done all the things they wanted to do. The problem? Maturity, too much or too little is experienced at too young an age.In some instances, this may not be that bad a thing. To be perfectly honest, the world would benefit from a little more maturity in young people when it comes to certain situations such as drinking and driving example. For that matter, giving immature people the ability to drive at all when they can't even handle the responsibility of holding a pair safety scissors. There are enough statistics out there that will tell you that young people are involved in more alchohol related incidences and automobile crashes than any other age group. In all these instances, the practice of acting better than your age may have saved their lives and/or others.
Then you have the other side of the problem. The people who got too mature at too young an age. These people experience just as much problems as the ones mentioned earlier. While being young and mature is considered a good thing, these "men and woman" miss out on the opportunity to be able to do stupid things. To them, things such as drinking on occasion consists of maybe a cooler once in a blue moon.
These are the two extreme's of the problem. What can anyone do? Its simple:
"Have fun; Be responsible; Act your age"
This is Falcon, signing off.
posted by Blue Falcon @ 11:34 PM
3 Comments:
This is the way I see it. Drinking has nothing to do with maturity, having fun, or doing stupid things. This weekend I went on the U of A Outdoors club trip to Nordegg. Both nights were filled with drunken revellery, yet I didn't have anything to drink and I am glad. I had tons of fun talking with people, hot tubbing, and playing card games. Actually, I also spent alot of time trying to get away from one very drunk guy who insisted on hitting on me constantly (very interesting times and he doesn't remember a thing). During the day I got to enjoy hiking and ice climbing, hang-over free.
So you can enjoy the feeling a few drinks give you, and I will enjoy the adrenaline rush of making it to the top of a difficult ice climb (or hanging off the waterfall with one ice axe because I have slipped). Maybe you don't have to choose one or the other. One activity I enjoy and the other I don't. One activity I have control and the other I don't. Both are drugs and the bodies responses to them. Just don't say I haven't lived life as I chose a different path.
Not drinking has to do with the way I feel and my safety but maybe I'm just a control freak.
Reply, reply, I say.... arggg I should go sleep, or something... actually I should do my work but instead I am wandering around blog making useless comment... I hope I entertain you ... right... work... anyway--- I want your reply
lol, yes you have a point about the drinking i suppose. However, my point was that these are the only ages your really allowed to be "stupid" with drinking.
Once you get an older age, its considered to be a big "no no" to drink that much a lot of the time.
but yes, i will accept the fact that you dont necessarily have to drink to have a good time.
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