Reply #33: Aside from the odd Red Bull, that's what I've been into for 20 years now. [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

I didn't like drinking beer, and missed out on the whole microbrewery/ale/foreign beer thing; I was mostly a gin and wine guy. I stopped drinking 6 months before my 20th birthday and haven't touched a drop since. Alcohol just isn't me. I'm a hyper goofy bastard, and "mellow/slow-burning/violent bar guy" ain't my style. I never did smokeable anything because of my grandmother not making it to her 50th birthday thanks to cigarettes.

I'm not even messing with drugs, as I've been around people most of that time period who still show the effects from too much gas huffing, acid dropping, coke-snorting, isopropanol w/grape soda-drinking, pill popping and more bong hits than the average human should ingest. Again, that's not me.

I don't see what the big deal is with learning from other people's mistakes instead of making them on your own. I didn't "miss out" on any experience; I had fun just the same. The difference is, I remembered all of it.

That's not to say I want to be lumped in with the Straight Edgers, though. While many of the kids into the scene are well meaning and cool to hang out with (despite others easily dismissing ALL of them as militant), there are some who take it further (I'm not even a vegan and occasionally drink Red Bull) and there are also a lotta fakes who just want to be part of something. You are who you are, though, and it's a part of me to this day. I don't push beliefs on anyone. I just find it funny that there are people who still can't conceptualize the idea of having fun without being on something.