Did you all miss angry Jojo? Well despair no more because I am back with a vengeance!
(although this might be shorter than my other rants...sorry haha)
What shall I be ranting about today? Two words:
Alcohol. Culture.
Now, before some high strung people rage at me with stuff like: "Oh my gawd, you're such a hater! Just 'cause you're such an angel doesn't mean you have to judge us just 'cause we wanna have some fun! It's our choice if we wanna drink alcohol or not, OHMIGAWD GO AWAY!" (a person actually defended themselves in this manner by the way, so I am technically not exaggerating) Let me explain a few things:
Numero Uno: No, I am not saying this on behalf of any religion; I am simply expressing my own personal views on the matter from what I have seen and experienced so far in my life with people who drink alcohol and alcohol in general.
Number duex: To answer the sarcastic remark: "Oh, like you have NEVER drank alcohol before, stop acting like such a saint!" I reply with no, I actually never have. Again, I shall state that I just do not find it appealing and my religion wouldn't even have to play a factor in it whatsoever.
Number twee: (MOST IMPORTANT - WARNING!): This message is not to my readers by the way. I have a friend whom I have been feeling very concerned for recently and lately she has been ignoring my attempts to contact her because she claims that I have been "out of line" and that it isn't "my business" what she decides to do to her body when we are chilling. So, I am writing this to her and I'm sorry, but this will contain swear words and controversial topics because I have been feeling so FRUSTRATED with her that I am just gonna let it all out. I'm sorry, I know I don't usually do this, but oh well.
So without further ado, let's begin: (By the way buddy, you'll know it's you I'm talking to when you're reading this.)
(although this might be shorter than my other rants...sorry haha)
What shall I be ranting about today? Two words:
Alcohol. Culture.
Now, before some high strung people rage at me with stuff like: "Oh my gawd, you're such a hater! Just 'cause you're such an angel doesn't mean you have to judge us just 'cause we wanna have some fun! It's our choice if we wanna drink alcohol or not, OHMIGAWD GO AWAY!" (a person actually defended themselves in this manner by the way, so I am technically not exaggerating) Let me explain a few things:
Numero Uno: No, I am not saying this on behalf of any religion; I am simply expressing my own personal views on the matter from what I have seen and experienced so far in my life with people who drink alcohol and alcohol in general.
Number duex: To answer the sarcastic remark: "Oh, like you have NEVER drank alcohol before, stop acting like such a saint!" I reply with no, I actually never have. Again, I shall state that I just do not find it appealing and my religion wouldn't even have to play a factor in it whatsoever.
Number twee: (MOST IMPORTANT - WARNING!): This message is not to my readers by the way. I have a friend whom I have been feeling very concerned for recently and lately she has been ignoring my attempts to contact her because she claims that I have been "out of line" and that it isn't "my business" what she decides to do to her body when we are chilling. So, I am writing this to her and I'm sorry, but this will contain swear words and controversial topics because I have been feeling so FRUSTRATED with her that I am just gonna let it all out. I'm sorry, I know I don't usually do this, but oh well.
So without further ado, let's begin: (By the way buddy, you'll know it's you I'm talking to when you're reading this.)
To My Dear Friend: Why I hate Alcohol Culture
First of all, I find alcohol itself to be disgusting. Maybe that view is really exaggerated considering I never tried it before, so let me try this again: I find the beverage to be pointless and degrading. I'm not even going to dedicate an entire paragraph to how many health risks it causes because if you haven't even heard of any of them by now and you're still drinking, then you are just an irresponsible doofus who shouldn't even be allowed to drink it before looking them up. Ignoring the fact that it causes heart disease, depression, seizures, liver damage, it's even been proven to have an influence to the cause of cancer. So yeah...if you still don't get why I don't find it appealing health-wise, it ain't my fault at this point. Probably just the weird conceptions people have nowadays of "healthy".
And I'm sorry, but I don't get how when you become a teen or when you hit a certain age, drinking alcohol and making shitty decisions is considered a tradition that you have to do as a part of "growing up". I also don't get how in a lot of countries (the one you're in included), sometimes one of the main compulsories to have in a party is alcohol and that everybody's life goal is to get completely "smashed" at least once in their life. I'm sorry but I just don't. And if you're gonna tell me that it's just your idea of "fun" and that I've just got some holy stick shoved up my ass, then bitch allow me to take off this stick of righteousness and shove it up your poop-shoot in hopes that I'll shove it so far up that maybe some morals might sink into your beer-dipped brain cell!
And you know what I hate most in general? Including the fact that it gets you so drunk, I am afraid of waiting for somebody to tell me one day that you're in an emergency room; and that it gets you so drunk, I'm terrified of the day that I hear you got raped; and that it gets you so drunk, you'll fail all of your classes at this rate; what I hate the most is how you nowadays seem to use it as an EXCUSE for you and your friends to be complete ASSHOLES and sometimes borderline violent to people around you. Look, buddy, I know you wanna have your fun, but there is A FUCKING LIMIT! To what you can pass off as "just having fun" and to what we consider as you crossing the line. I hate how people can be so inconsiderate to their loved ones around them and just not giving a flying fuck about how they are hurting them especially when they are practically knocking off the years in their life spans, like it's some fucking game of Jenga and when they finally bring the whole thing down, they don't care where or how they'll end up in the end.
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*ahem* Uh, okay. Now time for me to clarify.
I understand that people go through hardships, completely dark chapters in their lives and they want to get away from it all and I completely understand that. I'm not that naive; I acknowledge sometimes people see alcohol as a method of escapism so that just for some hours of the day they can get away from some of the pain (believe me, I've experienced some of it). For those who got offended by my aggressive tone still, I'll generalize my point before I end this rant: I get that when you are young, you're influenced by your friends to just have fun and just take a sip, there's no harm. And I get if you're just one of those people that never get to that extent of "completely hammered" and just sometimes take alcohol for its flavor, I won't hold it against you. As long as you ain't hurting anybody (else), I'm not one to stop you. You believe in your philosophies, I'll believe my own and I'm gonna let you do you. I just don't see the purpose of getting completely drunk during the weekends and risk your safety in so many ways just to shout stupid stuff at somebody's window or finally get a quickie in some neighbor's closet.
And with that, I'll end my point with website article that finally encouraged me to write this up for my friend and I wrote a sentence partially based on one of the points made on it (you'll find it on the page):
Sorry for people who found me too aggressive in this rant. Again, this is just a message for my friend, NOT intended to offend anybody out there. And apologies for the RIDICULOUSLY bad grammar I used in this rant, haha! I just had no control by the time I wrote the first paragraph.
Anyways, hope you at least enjoyed some aspects of this post,
And I hope to come back writing something positive at least! Haha
Have a nice day and PEACE!
