more thoughts re: yesterday afternoon's post

[lauralh]

So let's move forward to the premise that college is bad, because it encourages a culture of excess. Either you meet and fuck a shitton of people, or you drink too much, or drop too much acid, or just overdose on drama. And if you ain't doing any of that, you're probably working way too fucking hard on classes. There are very few careers where you have to pull all-nighters, ever.

But then again, it probably goes back to high school. The reason people explode in college is because their whole life up to that point, they've had to fucking ask permission to go to the fucking bathroom. Freedom is fun! and scary.

Something needs to be done. But not for me, I'm over it, I work for a living.

Comments

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

That's great, but I don't really see most parents able to do that, unfortunately.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yeah I suppose not. Though my Mom did it at the craziest point in her life. She was newly divorced had no freaking money whatsoever. I mean nothing. She worked in a retail job plus a few other gigs as a musician and everyone was kind of a crazy mess after the past few years. Our Father had essentially walked out on their lives, my youngest brother was really a mess emotionally and she just kinda let them be. She let them take care of themselves when she was at work and decided to change her schedule a bit so that she could see them a little more. The big thing was despite having no money and never really being able to pay the bills on time she was able to spend more time with them and everyone got to sleep in for once. The sleep factor made a huge difference in their lives. I had just moved out so I couldn't be there all the time either. Though for awhile I did move back in and that was kind of interesting. Everyone did their own thing, no one had any money yet we did a lot of things and I would sometimes teach them things or I would find resources for whatever it was they were interested in. Damn were we ever broke.