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WHY SCIENCE IS MAKING LIFE BORING...
I’m sorry to say it, but scrolling through this category makes me a little ashamed of being a teenager.
By the looks of things, most of us are intent on gabbling on about the news that (shock-horror) smoking, drinking and drugs can shorten your life-span. As if we haven’t been told enough already. Now, I’m not advocating a life that revolves around the next fix, cig, or flagon - but let’s at least enjoy ourselves. Without these three deadly sins, where would we be?
Where would art, music and our beloved literature be without drugs? How could the artist, musician or novelist survive without the odd hasty cigarette clenched between their troubled lips? Where would the weekends of stumbling, spewing and stupidity be without the litres of white cider and mysterious mixed spirits?
If we are all as clever as we would like to think, why is it that we still torture our bodies with these fatal excesses?
The answer is fun - doing stuff for the pure hell of it - it’s supposed to be what we (teenagers) live for. Now is the time to feast on rebellion, however petty, and believe ourselves to be invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there’s plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?
Let’s stop patronising each other, and just enjoy surviving. After all, good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die!
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Ok. I don't quite know what to say... I half way understand where you're coming from. But, at the same time- What the crap? One of my friends was drinking "for the pure hell of it" and got in a car drunk.. because he felt he could do anything and survive. He died that night... because he didn't listen. And what if he wrecked into another car and killed some little child's mommy?
I agree we all need our 'stupid' moments, but being a druggie is no way to live. I think that a night on the town every now and then is fine-as long as your not driving. There just has to be a happy medium.
I agree in the general sense that we all need a vice or two.
It's what keeps us sane, it's what keeps us creative.
I think this is just the irresponsible attitude that is rampant among teens and ought to stop.
Drugs/alcohol/whatever might provide a temporary escape from your troubles, but this is, as I said, temporary. What happens when you get off it? You want more. And so you do it again. And again. And you're enslaved. And yes, it can kill you.
To be honest, I've always been of the opinion that drugs and alcohol dampen the fun you can have. I think having control over what you're doing and being able to remember it clearly actually enhances your experience. Plus, it's not really rebellion when everyone is doing it. Where I'm from, you're a rebel if you turn down something. You don't do things for the hell of it; you do it because it's expected. It's what normal kids do.
If you've read any Stephen King, his absolute worst work came from the times that he was out of his brain on coke. Hemingway was a well-known drunk, but he always wrote sober. I've always wondered what greatness would have come from those who were already great but corrupted their work. On the Road was wonderfully innovative at the time, but it's been done. I'm ready for something fresh.
