Choices: Why They're /Surprisingly/ a Personal and Perhaps ExclusionaryThing

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm the quiet type. I prefer Supernatural and LOTR marathons over large parties, I rarely have a problem with staying in on a weekend. I need time to rest up after social interaction. I like solitude. When I have parties, they are small and with like-minded people who are also the quiet type. I'm basically your textbook case introvert, and I've never seen much wrong with that.

Being in college, I still don't see a problem with that. I guess you could say I'm "straight-edge." I don't drink. I don't do drugs. Some of my friends do, but I don't think any less of them for it. I honestly don't judge their choices, because I know they are having fun the way they have fun. I don't have a problem with them.

Until they start to questions my choices.

A lot of my friends went away for college, and they return with tales of drugs, alcohol, and sex. That makes it a little difficult to relate to them, but they were never my closest friends to begin with. Nevertheless, it still irks me to no end to have someone I thought knew me ask if I crave those "college experiences," and try to insinuate that I'm bored and unsatisfied with my life.

Excuse you, whether or not I am satisfied with my life is my own business and my own choice. Personally, I do not need the help of substances to have a good time. Rather, I rely on the interactions with my close friends to create an exciting and stimulating atmosphere.

Sometimes, I think the fact that I attend community college where they don't can give them airs. I've seen it in people I once considered my closest friends. They try to assure me I will have a good time. I don't need to be assured. I can rely on myself for that. Life is what you make of it. Just because I chose to save money by going to Harper, doesn't mean I'm not living fully.

So please, friends, do not tell me I am "the type of person who lives more in the pages of their writing than they do through life," because I might consider not speaking to you again/wanna punch a hole straight through your face.