Keane wrote:It's not gonna make you look like shit the way smoking does, but I don't believe that if you remain to drink on an average level for, say, 40 - 50 years, you'll be just as fine as you'd be if you hadn't.
One of my dad's friends told me this story about when his mother was in surgery at about 80 years of age and the head surgeon called round all kinds of doctors to come look at the marvellously healthy organs she had - she doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, never has, never will. I find this story inspiring.
ZeptoRay wrote:Never got into it, I was mostly bullied for that in highschool, I think its really stupid.
Pfehah they bullied you because you weren't a slut who didn't respect her own desires and boundraries?
Master wrote:Hm, your time will come, as is the trouble with teenagehood.
And it all miraculously becomes smooth sailing once you go to college and/or leave highschool. What a strange society secondary holds.
ZeptoRay wrote:Adsolution wrote:Relationships have definitely been a prominent thought in my mind lately, though not a buggering one, since it's really not something that concerns me in the slightest. I suppose it will happen if it wants to, though I have no particular urge whatsoever to go out looking for someone.
What life has taught me the most is to not look for these things or they just never come.
What? You intend to remain completely passive and hope love will find
you? If you're looking for it, you only need to create the opportunity. If the opportunity is there, it'll happen eventually.
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As concerning my own relationships, I've had my fair share of drama in middle school. I once fell for a girl that was generally disliked by everyone for a reason I still cannot comprehend, but then her best friend fell in love with me but not the other way around and, oh brother...
Then I fell in love with one of those 'unreachables' that I didn't think really existed in my school, but then again, I later lost my love for her when I removed the blindfold and saw what her character was really like.
I also at some point fell in love with a friend, but not actually that deeply. I don't know why it remained superficial, but eventually it was myself who decided I wanted to remain friends with her and not attempt to create a strange situation between us. I'm on great terms with her nowadays, actually.
Currently, I'm in this awfully depressing cycle of this one girl getting very close to me and then growing very distant repeatedly. She's the closest thing to a girlfriend I've yet to have had, but if being close together makes us both sigh in happy relief, fills our eyes and hearts with joy and if a warm embrace is enough to send our hearts racing, I don't know what else 'having a girlfriend' amounts to (other than the comfort with being intimate in public) - by the way, that's not just me personally interpreting situations wrongly; it's what happens to us both in one of those 'close cycles'.
I've figured out some time ago that I will always love her - she has hurt me in the past and still my love didn't flicker - but we may very well never end up together. And maybe that's for the best. Either way, true love will find its path if you allow it to flow freely.
Dark Lum Lord wrote:Well I can relate. I have no plans to tell my parents in the future at all. I'll likely end up keeping it a secret for my whole life because I just don't care either way.
You know if your parents care enough, they'll know already and you'll never have to tell them. It'll be one of the facts of life.
ZeptoRay wrote:Oh, I'm sure you already can, take a little bit of more time to type paragraphs and you'll likely out-write me on account of my awful writing skills.
*snip*
Oops there you go, I was starting a wall all about just that.

[/quote]Now I'm going to have to help you out here. People don't say 'holy shit that's a wall of text' because you write a lot of text. It's because the text you write comes out as a wall. There's no spacing, nothing to ease the reading. If you use some more spacing between lines and paragraphs, your texts become a lot more legible.
GNineify wrote:But when I told my mother that I don't want to get married, she just laughed and said my mind will change. Doesn't she know that it's an offensive thing to say? I honestly cringe at the idea.
Your mother probably only thought you were too young to be thinking about such things. She was trying to be kind to you.
And who knows - maybe you'll find someone you really enjoy spending a lot of your time with, even if not romantically.
OldClassicGamer wrote:I see relationships as a waste of time (no offense to anyone who is in a relationship)
I'm not in one and I'm gravely offended.
THEdragon wrote:But man, I'm really sick of romance in media. It seems like almost EVERY movie, book, TV show, etc. has to have some silly 'love interest' thing going on. Bleh.
It's just what sells. Sex and violence man, that's the magic formula.
Keane wrote:in reality I have yet to ever meet a person who has always been in a fine relationship and has not divorced.
I think people nowadays get married too soon - they commit to each other before fully knowing whether they will truly stay together. Or maybe either side just wants the alimony. :/
Adsolution wrote:Until there are solid definitions for these things and you can have them objectively confirmed, labelling yourself as such is probably more misleading to yourself than it is without. Just be yourself, and don't worry about being all pseudo-technical about it.
I think I might be a transraymannophile... don't judge me!
I do really appreciate the essence of your opinion there though. It's a real nice thought.
Bzzit wrote:Xbox also has stuff like Fable: Legends and that game made by the guys who did Alan Wake.
dartofthedavros wrote:i wish halo 5 wasn't one of the only xbox exclusive title
Mmmrrmrmrmrmmmm now I'm really considering Xbox One. Goddamnit I thought this was one I could steer clear of. x)