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Do Teenagers No Longer Know How to Have Fun?

August 31, 2010
By dogdaysareover SILVER, Cranford, New Jersey
dogdaysareover SILVER, Cranford, New Jersey
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It seems like today teenagers don't know how to make their own fun without getting drunk. Remember playing man hunt at or having a movie night with your best friends? Were those times so bad that they need to be replaced with raging parties? I don't want to sound like a nerd by saying I have a good time playing scrabble or obsessing over Taylor Lautner's abs with my best friends on my Friday nights, but that's what's fun for me. I don't know why teens feel like they need alcohol in the first place. I have never gotten drunk, but we all know the effects of it. Making regrettable mistakes while drunk and being hungover doesn't seem like much fun to me. Sometimes I think, well maybe everybody drinks because they are stressed. I don't think that's an occasion for a party, though. I personally have been through multiple breakdowns due to a seemingly endless amount of homework balanced with clubs and sports. Never have I let this stress make me want to drink though. I sometimes think it shouldn't bother me. If that's what people think is fun, why should I ruin it for them? I wouldn't want them messing with my scrabble tiles or blocking my view of a sexy werewolf. Maybe it's just fun for them because it makes them feel like rebels. "Hey! Look at me! I'm in a picture on facebook with a red solo cup! I'm so bad ass!" I don't know what goes their minds. All I know is I can't change them. I'll have my fun my way and they can have their fun their way.


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on Sep. 17 2010 at 7:36 pm
dogdaysareover SILVER, Cranford, New Jersey
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Exactly! I feel like if you have a group of close friends who know how to have good clean fun, its easy to just be yourself without being under the influence.

on Sep. 17 2010 at 12:09 pm
toxic.monkey SILVER, Tashkent, Other
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"Homo homini lupus"

Well... sounds like you're saying it's just our generation. It's a lot of generations! Everyone tried everything in the past, we didn't invent drinking or smoking or pot. I do agree that it's totally our choice of what we do for fun- drinking or obsessing over Lautner abs ;)

on Sep. 16 2010 at 10:39 pm
Healing_Angel SILVER, Sydney, Other
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Live for today, not for tomorrow

I agree with Thesilentraven! Where are the times where people had movie nights and parties full of healthy food? I think teens these days need to stop worrying so much about fitting into group and concentrate on just being themselves(me included).  

on Sep. 6 2010 at 10:30 am
dogdaysareover SILVER, Cranford, New Jersey
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thank you.  nobody has ever called me or my writing wise before!

on Sep. 3 2010 at 7:50 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;il piu nell&#039; uno,&quot; (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> &quot;Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality&quot; ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> &quot;The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain&quot; <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran

This was so simple... and yet so wise.