yacob.naif
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What's up everybody,
I'm sitting here at 5AM, 1 1/2 hours before i have to go to work, haven't gotten a minute of sleep tonight. It's currently STILL 80+ degrees in my house, my a/c's broken, and the only one of my roomates who still stays here now that's school's out has the only working air conditioner in his room, but stays locked in there 24/7 with his wife, errr, girlfriend //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
I'm sitting here, realizing more and more that i'm pretty much wasting my life away here in Kent, OH.
Around here, the social climate consists of people who fall into two, and only two, categories. The first is the most widely spread social group of them all, the people who's lives revolve around drinking themselves beyond any state deemable as 'social' drinking night after night. They seem pretty content doing this anywhere, for any reason, with anyone, regardless of whether or not they actually share more interests beyond the drinking with any of those said people.
The other group of people, who are also spread thick across the earth, are those who feel 100% content simply finding one sole person who they can attatch to emotionally, and spend every last moment with that person, barring out any social content or connections they had previous to that emotional attachment.
There's nothing else here. There's aquaintances at school, there's friendly chit chat at, oh say, Mr. Hero, or Bob Evans, and of course the people that fall into category A are always more than happy to share a few laughs with you when you stop into their favorite bar to grab a bite to eat, but of course as i said earlier, they really don't care WHO they're talking to, they're just happy to be talking to SOMEONE while they're drinking.
There's no tangeable person-to-person car tuning scene, no car audio scene, no real music scene, except for he obscure isolated groups of fans for particular groups here or there, most of which have probably been banded together since they all went to high school together //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
But honestly, p2p networking doesn't really go deeper than that around here. People come here to go to class, chit chat, drink at the bars, but at the end of the day, they really all just go home to wherever they're originally from, and hang out with their true friends, their high school buddies.
Anyways, i know i'm not the only person who feels this way about where they're currently living these days, so i wondered if any people who are currently living in, or have had experience living in, places with ACTUAL engaging social scenes, could chime in about some of the cool places they're living, or places they've lived.
I think it's really getting to me lately that something inside me just knows i'm wasting my time staying here just because "i'm already here, and have a job" and "because it's easy"
I think i'm actually ready to move on. Get some money together, find a place to stay on the ol' craigslist, and hit the road. I know there's gotta be places in this huge country where people actually get together and share hobbies rather than sitting in isolated pockets and chatting about them online. Cause right now, honestly, i'm still stuck at the point where MOST, not all, but MOST of my friends are the same ones i've had since high school, and over the years, i'm learning more and more than i'm not nearly as similar to them as maybe i once thought.
I wanna move somewhere where i can meet genuine friends, who actually connect on a higher level than "we used to smoke lots of pot together and knock over trashcans back in the day" hehe.
So where are you guys at? What's the social scene like where you live?
Are there actually things to go and see and do, and be able to meet new people with similar interests/hobbies?
Or am i being paranoid, and everywhere on earth is limited to drinking, or commiting to confinement in a 2-person microcosm of society //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
And NO i haven't been drinking //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif And NO, i'm not really THIS cynical on a daily basis. But i'm being sincere about wanting to leave this place. I wanna know what else is out there, where are some of the happening places some of you have experienced in your days.
I need room to breathe, dammit! I was hoping finally moving out of my parents house would be a growing/learning experience for me, but honestly, i don't think an hour or so down the highway, is really cutting it. I need to go somewhere new, and find new things to do/people to meet/places to hang out/ etc. etc. etc.
I'm sitting here at 5AM, 1 1/2 hours before i have to go to work, haven't gotten a minute of sleep tonight. It's currently STILL 80+ degrees in my house, my a/c's broken, and the only one of my roomates who still stays here now that's school's out has the only working air conditioner in his room, but stays locked in there 24/7 with his wife, errr, girlfriend //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
I'm sitting here, realizing more and more that i'm pretty much wasting my life away here in Kent, OH.
Around here, the social climate consists of people who fall into two, and only two, categories. The first is the most widely spread social group of them all, the people who's lives revolve around drinking themselves beyond any state deemable as 'social' drinking night after night. They seem pretty content doing this anywhere, for any reason, with anyone, regardless of whether or not they actually share more interests beyond the drinking with any of those said people.
The other group of people, who are also spread thick across the earth, are those who feel 100% content simply finding one sole person who they can attatch to emotionally, and spend every last moment with that person, barring out any social content or connections they had previous to that emotional attachment.
There's nothing else here. There's aquaintances at school, there's friendly chit chat at, oh say, Mr. Hero, or Bob Evans, and of course the people that fall into category A are always more than happy to share a few laughs with you when you stop into their favorite bar to grab a bite to eat, but of course as i said earlier, they really don't care WHO they're talking to, they're just happy to be talking to SOMEONE while they're drinking.
There's no tangeable person-to-person car tuning scene, no car audio scene, no real music scene, except for he obscure isolated groups of fans for particular groups here or there, most of which have probably been banded together since they all went to high school together //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
But honestly, p2p networking doesn't really go deeper than that around here. People come here to go to class, chit chat, drink at the bars, but at the end of the day, they really all just go home to wherever they're originally from, and hang out with their true friends, their high school buddies.
Anyways, i know i'm not the only person who feels this way about where they're currently living these days, so i wondered if any people who are currently living in, or have had experience living in, places with ACTUAL engaging social scenes, could chime in about some of the cool places they're living, or places they've lived.
I think it's really getting to me lately that something inside me just knows i'm wasting my time staying here just because "i'm already here, and have a job" and "because it's easy"
I think i'm actually ready to move on. Get some money together, find a place to stay on the ol' craigslist, and hit the road. I know there's gotta be places in this huge country where people actually get together and share hobbies rather than sitting in isolated pockets and chatting about them online. Cause right now, honestly, i'm still stuck at the point where MOST, not all, but MOST of my friends are the same ones i've had since high school, and over the years, i'm learning more and more than i'm not nearly as similar to them as maybe i once thought.
I wanna move somewhere where i can meet genuine friends, who actually connect on a higher level than "we used to smoke lots of pot together and knock over trashcans back in the day" hehe.
So where are you guys at? What's the social scene like where you live?
Are there actually things to go and see and do, and be able to meet new people with similar interests/hobbies?
Or am i being paranoid, and everywhere on earth is limited to drinking, or commiting to confinement in a 2-person microcosm of society //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
And NO i haven't been drinking //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif And NO, i'm not really THIS cynical on a daily basis. But i'm being sincere about wanting to leave this place. I wanna know what else is out there, where are some of the happening places some of you have experienced in your days.
I need room to breathe, dammit! I was hoping finally moving out of my parents house would be a growing/learning experience for me, but honestly, i don't think an hour or so down the highway, is really cutting it. I need to go somewhere new, and find new things to do/people to meet/places to hang out/ etc. etc. etc.
