ryborg

I feel like a goddamn kid. I'm 18, turning 19 here soon in July, and I wish I was an adult. College still feels a little bit like highschool around here, and it seems like many of the students don't take their lives seriously -- which I find both irritating and disturbing. I figure if I was an adult, the people I'm around will have realized that there is more to life than partying and, perhaps, finally understand people like myself. I'll go out with friends and aquaintances, but sometimes I tell them that I have work to do, and that it's important to me. Whenever I do this they just look at me like I'm crazy and tell me to get a life, sometimes jokingly, sometimes not. When I'm at work I also sometimes wonder if people actually listen to what I say, because I feel like I get discredited and written off just because I'm young, regardless of what I have to say. So tell me, does it get better once you're out there and in the "real world"? I'm sure it's the same to some degree. Everyone likes to go out and party once and a while. There will always be office politics. But will anyone every say, "Now I know why that guy refused to party that one night." Or at work will someone ever say, "I like that idea because that guy knows what he is talking about." Will people get off my back for not jumping at every opportunity to get drunk that presents itself? Will the older people I'm around ever actually listen to what I have to say? Will I ever find some understanding and mutual respect? For those of you more experienced than myself, what can I expect?

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