I'm crushing so hard that I can't fucking concentrate on anything at all

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So, yeah, call me a dick or whatever, but:

Your relationship is a train wreck between two people who do more or less unknown drugs until they can't even move their faces properly.  Everything you post about seems to revolve around drugs, including your love life.  That's no way to run a human, let alone a relationship between two humans.

Not telling you to stop; far be it from me to get between the Titanic and the iceberg.  I'm just saying that your mother is not acting unreasonable from the point of view of a parent.  I'm also saying that you can only fuck yourself up for so long before you turn into something hideous, and the rate you're going, that's going to happen before you're 25.  Imagine that!  Feeling like you're middle-aged before you turn 30, and only 50 or so more years to tolerate that state of existence.  Well done.

Now, there's no reason to keep reading this sort of lecturing.  The world's just full of drugs, and you'd better get busy "testing" them.  When you catch up to me, age-wise, in about 7 years, drop me a line and tell me how the tests went.

(You won't believe me.  People your age are incapable of believing this sort of shit, because you're INVINCIBLE, and how can altering your body chemistry POSSIBLY be bad for you?  I mean, it was EVOLVED WRONG, and you need drugs to FIX IT.  Or something.)

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

100% TRUTH.

But yeah, your mom is wrong. Your girlfriend isn't going to "ruin your life", it looks like you can manage that fine on your own. It's a bitch for a mom to look at things that way, though, and a lot won't.

Oh, and hanging around public places tripping balls isn't a real good idea, either.

[Dalek]

You're just a bunch of old people wishing you'd be young again. YOLO, bitchez!

Oh, and hanging around public places tripping balls isn't a real good idea, either.

Not in Varna. People are clueless. And cops don't give too much of a fuck unless you're wearing a tracksuit and yelling at people.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

We ain't dead yet. I've seen some oldass people crush.
And I wouldn't count on everybody being totally clueless. They might not know exactly WHAT you're doing, but they can tell you're on SOMETHING.

[Cain]

Did someone just actually say YOLO on this site without their tongue planted firmly in their cheek?

Get out.  Now.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Did someone just actually say YOLO on this site without their tongue planted firmly in their cheek?

Get out.  Now.

Thank you.

[AFK]

You're just a bunch of old people wishing you'd be young again. YOLO, bitchez!

I dunno, I find my healthy, clear-headed late 30s to be quite enjoyable.  And yes, we DO only get one shot on this hunk of space rock.  Call me crazy, but I think having a nice long shot at it, where I am in full control of my mental faculties, is the way to go.  If that makes me a boring old square, I'll happily wear the label. 

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Love makes you do the wacky. 

And it sticks to your face.

NOT IN MY EYE!

THAT SHIT FUCKING STINGS!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You're just a bunch of old people wishing you'd be young again. YOLO, bitchez!

[Salty]

Yeah, you only live once, with one body, one brain, one set (probably) of sexual organs.

You don't get any spares.

So what you're gonna want to do is burn through that shit as fast as possible.

It is working for the oil industry. I wish you much success..

[Lenin McCarthy]

Personally, I'm a young person wanting to get old AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

I've gotten ridiculously drunk from straight-shotting Polish everclear. I've smoked weed. I've had stupid crushes. (If there's anything left that would be nice to be over and done with before entering real adulthood, it's perhaps hopelessly pursuing those stupid crushes, instead of just sitting and waiting until they're over.) I'm starting to want to move on. All these feelings and emotions and stuff are not that fun. And you guys say it's gonna last way into my 20s? 

[Salty]

Let me tell you a little story about a guy names Speedy.

Speedy was a Normal Guy I went to high school with. The clearest memory I have of him is after I asked, shyly, what do you do when you're banging and you can't keep it under control, how do you keep from joy-splosions. He said he just stared at a jar of pennies and would just focus on the pennies and think jarofpennies jarofpennies until it was okay to, you know.

Anyway, a year or two after high school Speedy and some other fellas, who had all been 21st Century burnouts, started taking these little red pills. I don't know what they were, they said some kind of cold medicine. They'd take a heaping handful of these little things.

Franklin, who as Speedy's best friend, whose brain is now something like mashed potatoes but can still play the guitar like a motherfucker, took those pills at a Tool concert up here so "I won't remember this because I hate Tool". Halfway though the concert, during a quiet lull, he started screeching like a hawk, nearly getting his ass beat by some musically enthusiastic meatheads. Kind of a boring reaction, more annoying than anything else.

Anyhow, Speedy takes these same things one night. Speedy does not have a boring night.

Speedy leaves his home, wanders around for a few hours, and then happens upon this house owned by some old woman. He somehow finds her way into her bedroom, starts beating her around, and then leaves her to call the cops. As they are on the way he finds a dog, a big dog. A german shepard. Speedy, after acquiring a blade, CUTS THE DOG INTO TEENY TINY PIECES.

As he exists the house there are a whole fuckload of police outside and he is covered in blood.

They taze his ass and he, miraculously, only gets about 3 years.

YOLO!

The End.

Personally, I'm a young person wanting to get old AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

(Mostly) Regardless of drug consumption or age, an asshole is always an asshole.

ETA: Not that you're an asshole, Lenin.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Personally, I'm a young person wanting to get old AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

I've gotten ridiculously drunk form straight-shotting Polish everclear. I've smoked weed. I've had stupid crushes. (If there's anything left that would be nice to be over and done with before entering real adulthood, it's perhaps hopelessly pursuing those stupid crushes, instead of just sitting and waiting until they're over.) I'm starting to want to move on. All these feelings and emotions and stuff are not that fun. And you guys say it's gonna last way into my 20s? 

IME it starts to settle down in the mid-20s.

You still get the euphoria and obsession and all that, but it's slightly more controllable as you get older, and you start to have a much better recognition of what's a bad idea. Sometimes you do them anyway, but at least you know ahead of time. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You're just a bunch of old people wishing you'd be young again. YOLO, bitchez!

Yeah, the best way to live most of that life is with huge problems created by excessive drug use.

But like I said, you won't listen because you CAN'T listen.

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Doing many powerful psychedelics isn't so bad, Dalek. Even mixing them together and taking experimental substances isn't likely to kill you or cause significant brain damage. I used a shit ton of drugs, especially LSD, when I was younger than you. It's a bad idea, but you'll probably be okay.

Sure, you might end up with a brain of hedonistic mush with a long, uncertain recovery ahead of you, or you may have to battle a disease for the rest of your life that the drugs helped precipitate, or just have to know that while you're fine, you're not nearly as smart, funny, or virtuous as you could have been if you spent your time more wisely.

Consider the trajectory of your life in the next 5-10 years if you go on like this and compare it to where you'd really like it to be.

edit: Too much overtime and not enough sleep makes my grammar a sad panda.