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Originally Posted by Martian
It took me all of five minutes. Still, you should be careful about stuff like that.
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Or you could just type the phrase into Google, which is what I did to find the whole quote, and it takes about 5 seconds.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
Personally, i think the people who are boozing/partying/drugging it up are the ones wasting their youth, but that's just me
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Well, sure, a case can be made for that. But why this dichotomy between "drinking/drugging like mad" and always being safe, never doing anything risky, basically sitting around doing nothing? I mean... most people go through their youth somewhere in between those extremes, no?
Personally, I waited till I was 21 to drink, then had a year of exploratory drinking, then a year of fairly hard partying, and ever since then I've been pretty much moderate... beer or two during the week, bottle of wine on Friday night with my husband, etc. Traveled as much as possible, backpacked, visited lots of countries, a habit which I intend to keep up for life. Got several degrees. Did not sleep around, did not do anything crazy really... but for me, the greater waste would have been to not take any risks and to stay on the straight & narrow (which is what my faith called for, when I had it, in my early 20s). For example, it was just not in my personality, I discovered, to remain a virgin until marriage. I ended up marrying the 2nd person that I had sex with. Go figure.
I think I managed to walk the gray line between black and white in my "youth" (which I intend to make last as far into my 30s, 40s, etc as possible), and for me, that meant that I was not wasting it... in fact, I was making the most of it. Still am.
