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I am going to disclose my very first personal experience at a party held at the Frat house; my friend Olivia had insisted me to accompany her. She had specifically instructed me to be dressed in somewhat adaptable attire to enable me to effortlessly go from one party to another, at the same time as little by little getting intoxicated at each party we would go to. She had also commanded me pre-hand to feel open-minded to converse with greenhorns even if they fail to come close to me originally. Furthermore, she had directed me to make myself appear accessible and involved in the fun activity by footing in a locale that was rather exposed and uncluttered with a melody that shouldn’t be excessively noisy.

As soon as we entered the Frat house, we sensed that not only the edifice was avant-garde but also had been well-maintained and the inside was honorably spotless. Even the design of the house was incredible. No vacant beer cans/liquor bottles could be seen stretched out and there was not any sort of stench or whiff. There was an area packed out with boys of the undergraduate level, stinking of Natural light beer. (more…)

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A common theme among party goers usually will consist of substance friendly types of people. So when there is a gathering of people who drink alcohol, often, they are comfortable being around people who indulge in other substances, particularly cigarettes and cigars.

If you ask a common party meister whether or not they smoke, a common answer will be “only when I’m drinking.” Now, of course it depends on the person in the situation, but often some of these people will be drinking so often that cigarettes become a part of their party lifestyle. Both of these substances are highly addictive, so it is not out of the ordinary for someone who is addicted to one of the substances to be addicted to the other, especially if they began using one substance with the other. It could start to turn into a lifestyle where someone who drinks will always have a cigarette with their alcohol. And since they are drinking frequently, they probably are smoking frequently as well. Vice versa could be true as well.  (more…)

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Part of having a wealthy lifestyle definitely includes partaking in fancy parties and affair with your other wealthy friends. Although it probably does not seem like it, I myself was once apart of the wealthier tier of people, and living in California of all places.

When I reached the higher tier of class, I noticed since I had more time to socialize, it was somewhat mandatory if I wanted to also have friends who fancied themselves as  being among the finer classes of life. But, the best apart about me entering the ranks of these people was that I was already quite familiar with being a social butterfly at these gatherings, albeit, raised a different kind of way than most of the other people here.

Entering into the stratosphere of the wealthy class was somewhat an enlightening experience for me, because I was able to see that many of these people were just like me, and they had collected themselves and established that their time was important and they wanted to socialize with other like minded people. This led to attending the same functions with the same groupings of people time and time again, and really gave me a chance to become close with a wide array of people.

Some of our particular gatherings took place at resorts, mansions, and other large venues, where most often, there would be a wide variety of drinks at each of these locations, which would really ease off some of the jitters that I had and really helped me get into the socializing and conversational person that I am.

When I was living in California, many of our gatherings took place throughout wine country. Napa, CA is known for it’s wine, as well as it’s upscale party life for the wealthier individuals. There are many fantastic locations that are somewhat isolated from the city folk and when you are at these events, they are basically no worries except having to deal with the occasional uppity individual. But truly, I met some wonderful people here whom I would call my friends for life.

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As we become more and more entrenched in this society that goes to their job and rewards themselves with TV, video games, and other pointless entertainment devices, one thing has remained constant, the United State’s citizens sure do love their alcohol.

For some reason, the media loves to feed us TV shows that depict less than sub-par human beings divulging in chaotic life experiences that almost always involve some sort of feud. I don’t know if there is an audience in America that just loves to watch other people have their arguments or get into fistfights, or whatever else is going on TV, but it has made it’s way into every category of TV. From the “Learning Channels,” to E!, to A&E, to ABC, all of these networks are displaying reality television as their now primary forms of entertainment. It’s kind of a low stoop below what we deserve as human, but nevertheless, there is a crowd that just can’t seem to step away from what’s going on in the Housewives of Los Angeles lives or trying to keep up with the Kardashians and the Jenner’s.

It’s not just on TV now though, it is covering Youtube, Facebook, Snapchat, even our journalism websites, and even websites that try to separate from those kinds of people, you hear me Reddit? (more…)

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With this growing population of young drinkers, a big concern that many of us adults have have lived through that time period in our lives will ask them is, “Can you handle it?”

The early 20’s of a person’s life can make or break their future, or at least for the short term of it. Once a person graduates high school and truly enters the adult life, a lot of the world really starts to show it’s true colors and hit them right between the eyes. For the college graduates, some will get a job, some will focus on school, and some will do both. But, for a lot of these social people, partying has it’s place.

Many people say live fast and live it up while you are long. Some better advice would be think smart, think logically, and ask yourself, “is this what I should be doing right now.”

For the party animals. Are you going to be able to handle partying at the same time as going to school or working to earn a living? Is the party effect having an affect on your mental stability? Is the alcohol affecting your cognitive thinking? If you answered yes to any of those questions, it may time to take a good hard look at the path you are heading down in your life.

I have seen first hand alcohol affect many of my friend’s lives. Some of the most ambitious people I ever knew in High School turned out to be lame drunkards 10 years later, and to this day, some of them are still doing the same old song and dance.

Alcohol makes sleeping a problem for people. Your brain cannot fully and repair itself as easily. If you are working a job it could greatly affect your performance on the clock. If you are a student, it could affect the ability to retain information for a period of time.

Upon graduating from college, I had not retained much of the information that I was supposedly learning in class. The only job I could find was killing bed bugs to earn my paycheck. The mixture of being hungover and dealing with the chemical fumes that I was inhaling really made my brain go through some foggy phases. I do not really remember about a year and a half of my life while I had that job. My social life was still going great, and I was partying on the regular, but since I was drinking quite often, I was never in a good mindset when I would wake up to head out for work.

I struggled with overcoming obstacles for quite a while in my early life. I was addicted to alcohol, but most of all, I was addicted to being social. And as I came to find out, so was everyone else who I was hanging out with. They were fueling my addiction while I was in part fueling theirs. It took years for me to realize this, but once I did, I started to analyze the steps I had taken in my life. (more…)

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Drinking in a social environment is one of the more acceptable ways to drink in today’s world. When hanging around big crowds, there is usually a bit of alcohol involved.

 

Bars

Clubs

House Parties

Family Hangouts

Friendly Hangouts

Weddings

Birthday Parties

Any Cause For Celebrations

they all usually entail drinking alcohol. At least in American Society.

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Alcohol is the most socially acceptable drug of choice. People who drink are definitely looked upon more favorably than anyone who smokes, no matter the substance. For some reason, alcohol has always been given an okay name by most people. Early on in life, once you are legally allowed to drink, so begins the time of many future alcoholics path down the hill. Most people’s 21st birthday consists of a celebration of sorts and nearly always will consist of helping the birthday person get wasted. After that birthday, now they are old enough to buy drinks, go to bars, hit the clubs, and do all the sorts of fun stuff. But because that person was restricted from tasting alcohol before that age, it can often turn into a lengthy celebration of a milestone being reached, which could turn ugly.

That first year as a 21 year old is so important, because once alcohol is legally able to be purchased, a person’s habits can be tested.This period in a lifetime can decide whether or not a person can function by having the ability to get alcohol whenever the want, or the opposite. Some people can handle drinking a minimal amount of alcohol whenever they go out and stay at happen, and they can keep themselves from getting overly intoxicated.  (more…)

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Going through college and truly living the college experience is an exciting thing to do coming fresh out of high school. Elementary school, middle school, and high school are kind of hard just because of all the rules that you have to face. And if you were not a fan of authority when you were younger like I was, then you could possibly understand the emotions in this post.

College can be the first time and many people’s lives when they truly feel free for once in life. Going through the lower levels of education, people are no doubt living under their parent’s roof and possibly abiding by some sort of a set of rules. After being persecuted by teachers and higher authority until you turn 18 can turn out to be a stressful way of living once you realize you are finally free. Since some people go away from college or move out of their parent’s house, it can turn into a reckless time. People may be spending too much time realizing that they are no longer under authority and spend too much time celebrating that fact. One of those people was certainly me.

After I finally broke free from the clutches of adult “authority” and realized that I am one of them now, I joined a fraternity out of some of the money I took out with student loans. My thinking was that this would help me meet new friends and form the connections that I believed that I needed coming out of college.

Well, one of the features of being a fraternity meant a lot of drinking. A lot of it was actually forced drinking, which made me believe that I had to enjoy drinking if I wanted to be apart of their group and be able to fit in. This extended to me getting used to the fact that I had to drink in many social situations, because, it turns out, peer pressure is a real and true thing. (more…)

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After you graduate or leave college upon finding a job, make sure your life is an order before adding too many hectic plans into your life. One of the problems with the drinking and partying in college is some people adapt to that lifestyle, even when they can not fully handle it.

When I was in college, I was in a fraternity. Our fraternity’s goals every day seemed to be to drink more and rage harder, and do it for longer than you did the night before. Sometimes we would be raging in for so many days in a row where I would sleep in my bed for an entire day, ultimately never doing nothing for that day.

The lifestyle was fun, for awhile, before I began to be dependent on the lifestyle. Little did I know, I was slowly becoming addicted to not only alcohol, but the lifestyle of the constant party life. Every night, I was hyped to hang out with all my friends and just get blasted.

The students who get A’s receive the highest paying jobs, people with B’s get the steady jobs, and people with C’s get the degrees. What’s a degree mean when you did not really acquire many skills in school because you were so busy partying you did not learn enough to acquire a sufficient amount of information to become even a skilled worker? You step into the manual labor lifestyle, and that’s exactly what happened with me.  (more…)

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I want to share with you all the dangers of drinking, and while this blog will share some of the many good times I have had, there is a lot of info on how to avoid going down the treacherous road of becoming an alcoholic. I believe that now more than ever, getting drunk has somehow become the cool thing to do. The peer influence taking place and the glamourization of beer and liquor has taken a huge turn and affected how many people are falling down the road to addiction. I am here to try and keep you all informed, and this post is going to be about the things NOT TO DO WHEN DRINKING. (more…)