Go Out and Be Stupid, People

I think it's important for teens to be teens. The years 13-19 are dreaded by parents for a reason, because they know that this is the time for their kids to be stupid, and they know this because they were probably crazier than their kids will ever be--they pushed their legal limits and as those limits get stricter, people keep pushing them but are able to get away with less. Man, I can't wait to see what my kids pull off.

Everyone needs to have a period of recklessness and mistakes and crazy stories, and if you don't have that I think you're really missing out. Especially in high school, you don't have to be so mature all the time if you're 16 and, face it, if you have a good group of friends, all you want to do is party, and chill, be lazy, and smoke pot and drink until you throw up. At least I did and so did most of my friends, and I really think I'm going to turn out fine and wear suits and go to work and have a family blah blah balh. Of course I've done and said stupid things that I now wish I shouldn't have, but what good is it going to do being embarrassed of something I've done months or years ago, who cares? [I will say though, that there isn't a worse feeling than waking up after a crazy night and realize you totally acted a fool--especially if it took a lotttt of other people to take care of you....agh the guilt and embarrassment! Just thinking and typing acout it makes me scowl.] It'll just be another thing I can warn someone younger or less experienced than me about, but they're not going to listen because they just have to go out and make that mistake to ever know for themselves. I feel like I talk about this all the time, but obviously that's why old people are so wise--they've just been through everything, and we think they're so stupid and out of touch and we don't listen, and then we come back with our tails between our legs admitting that they were right all along. It does suck though that when we're around the ages of 70-80 that we'll know all this and not actually be able to go out and act on all this awesome knowledge, because we'll be old and ugly and wrinkly, ew, but it'll probably be entertaining to see stupid young'ns make stupid mistakes and we;ll get to feel awesome because we'll be so so so so right.

Hopefully this can justify some of the STUPID SHIT I've done over the past few years, haha, and I'm sure there's way more to come because this bitch is crazy. Life is fucking weird and changes in an instant so you might as well have fun; we only have so much time left until shit gets serious, and it's already starting to. Who cares is the consequences are an MIP [I wasn't even having nearly as much fun as I had at some parties, but I feel that I had one coming just from stuff I had previously gotten away with] or a write-up from a bullshit RA in my dorm [I give that situation a major eye-roll]. Oh and sorry I got kind of philosophical on your asses for a minute there...

Throughout this post as you can see, are some pictures of my fun nights over the years that I find particularly memorable [don't judge me too hard, people].

So, that is what I think about youth and recklessness.
Until next time,

-S

My First Blog; a.k.a My Life Story

[Ok, the title isn't entirely true because I came home last night from a pretty crazy night of partying and sat down and typed a blog about my opinion about bellybutton piercings, and then actually fell asleep on my futon with my glasses on and my computer open on my lap [don't worry, my roommate took a picture and I'll post it eventually], but then I read what I wrote this morning and decided it was too stupid to have as my first blog on here. And you should also know I'm pretty hungover right now, so my thoughts are even more jumbled than usual, and I like using parentheses a lot.] Let's do this thing.

So, I'm new at this, but I'm a pretty quick learner so I think I'll get the hand of this blog thing soon, so just bear with me. [I have faith in myself because I totally mastered the whole MySpace era, and now would say I'm good at the whole Facebook thing...] Even though it'll probably bore you, I wanted to tell you, whoever you are, a little bit more about myself. I am currently a freshman at Michigan State University, and I want to study Urban Planning and Real Estate Law, so, ideally, I want to design awesome cities and make them awesome in all aspects, you just wait. Aaaanyways, I grew up in Troy, a suburb north of Detroit. I'm an only child, and I think that helped me to develop a lot of my quirkiness, well that and my funny parents and my random and crazy life.

Let's talk about music. It's safe to say that I started listening to awesome music when I was about nine, starting with the Beatles, Janis Joplin [all of third grade I thought I was a hippie because I wore bracelets up to my elbow] and surprisingly, Metallica, thanks to my death-metal-loving cousins (but this band will forever hold a place in my heart, haha--my first album ever was Master of Puppets...quickly followed by Ricky Martin and Backstreet Boys and Britney and all that jazz that was popular in 2000). But I would say my real musical epiphany was in fifth grade, when i was watching Jump Start on VH1 one morning before school and saw the video for "Fell In Love With A Girl" by the White Stripes--if you're not familiar with the song or the video, look it up now--it's lego animation! Needless to say, I had never heard anything like it, and my mind was instantly blown, I made my mom go and buy me White Blood Cells after school that day, and they've been my favorite band ever since. I think whats great about them is that they just have an awesome and raw sound, and they opened up doors for me to discover all new music in crazy different genres, ones you never would have thought could have even been associated with The White Stripes, so that's that. I am disappointed, however, that out of all the shows I go to all over Michigan [but mostly in downtown Detroit], I still have not seen Jack White play live, which is obviously a dream of mine. Currently I'm in a huge Zeppelin phase (which I feel like most people go through...I literally have not been able to stop listening to them for the past two weeks, fucking geniuses.)

Now let's talk about pretty much the most important thing one should know about me: I am 100% Ukrainian. I am third generation American, but even so, my parents taught me Ukrainian as my first language [I didn't know much English until I was about five] and I am still fluent today. If you meet me and get into a conversation with me lasting longer than say...two minutes it's basically unavoidable for me not to mention something to do with my Ukrainian heritage. I'll get into way more details if they're relevant in some other posts...


Who knows if I'll actually keep up with this, but hopefully I do! The way I think this blog will work is this: I want to cover one or more topics a day, whether it's something tiny and stupid like freaking bellybutton piercings or what I think of..I don't know...the government or something, you're going to read my thoughts and most likely random other shit I think about other shit interlaced with tidbits of my life or stories I think are funny/interesting/relevant but most likely are not. Have fun with that. I love you.

-S