EMBRACE THE HOMEBODY
What is the weekend for these days? Sleep is probably the best answer as of late. I remember there was a very long stretch of time where I would look forward to the weekend – I would work my ass off all week and by Friday I would just want to go out and party with friends. Well as I’ve aged, those “friends” have significantly decreased along with the glamour of the nightlife due to a number of factors.
CLUB SCENE SEGREGATION
You see all those uncomfortably placed people pressed against each other in those booths? Those people are better than you – they have a wristband or special stamp or are part of a secret guest list. FOR WHAT!? What do you guys do? Tell me. The club scene has created this separation where certain people are treated differently than the average club goer. I still haven’t understood how this selection process fully works yet.. Nor will I invest any time into finding out. But it exists and in my opinion is ruining the social dynamic that clubs are supposed to create. Vent over.
TOO COOL TO DANCE?
You copped a new outfit huh? You just did your makeup huh? You just got a clean cut at the barber huh? FOR WHAT!? You just spent 2 hours in the club texting your best friend who didn’t come out and scrolled Instagram – make sure not to forget to upload a video of you lip-syncing your favourite song on Snapchat but not actually dancing to it. I remember grade school when all the girls would stand on one side and all the guys would stand on the other – then we would wait for one person to make the first move and we would all follow suit. The club scene is WORSE than that now – when someone does make a move to start dancing, everyone just looks at them like they are breaking some unwritten code. WHY ARE YOU HERE THEN!? Vent over.
PROGRESS WILL ALIENATE YOU
Embrace the homebody. Eventually you will get addicted to progression – you will reach a point where you truly get a high from seeing things you work for come to fruition. This same addiction will alienate you from those that are not wired this way.. and that’s okay. I have been locked up just building myself for the last couple months that I didn’t even notice how much I have alienated myself.. Until last night.
For the first time ever since I have been of age to go clubbing, I didn’t know ANY lyrics to a song that was playing and I felt so out of place. Everyone in the club was going off to this song lyric by lyric – and there I was standing and looking around LOST. Have I been away this long? Maybe I just haven’t downloaded music in while? Am I getting too old for this? Have my priorities changed that much? The answer is yes to all of those questions. Vent over.