Nightclubs

Clubs have this effect of transforming people. The thumping music, the lights, and most of all, the alcohol - all of these elements hijack your senses in a typical night out at the club. Some people remain remarkably congruent with their usual selves; but most people I've observed will either teeter on the edge of their sanity or become a different person altogether. You step into a club, you step into a different world - a world where everything is fast-paced, dynamic, and driven by alcohol. A world where you are prone to doing stupid things and stupid things happen to you.

For this reason, the club and the reality outside are often best kept separate from each other. It's safest to go in there, let whatever will be be and then come out of it pretending nothing happened. Complications happen when your reality is brought into the club. And thus you get all these stories of people kissing and insisting they were drunk, otherwise innocent people allegedly trying to grind their friends etc.

Which was the case the other night at UK Bound. It's so interesting to watch people take on different personas and abuse their liquid courage. And as onlookers we have to feel embarrassed for them, cos they obviously can't do it themselves.

Nightclubs are all about hooking up. Nobody actually goes there "just to dance" or "enjoy the music", and anyone who claims they do is either making excuses or isn't too sure why they're there either. Which is why, kids, you don't bring friends into a nightclub unless you plan on hooking up with them. Or if you have to, at least try not to make an ass of yourself.

most interesting..

Roslyn said the most intriguing thing the other day on MSN. I'd told her I was killing time online before going to bed at 1030. And she said this:

“isn't a man of your age supposed to be busy partying?”

I thought about it, and yeah, come to think of it when I was seventeen I sort of imagined people in their twenties to be out drinking/clubbing/at a rock show all day too. I thought they'd learnt the ways of the world and were a really sophisticated, worldly-wise bunch of people. Now that I'm twenty, I know otherwise. I know that at twenty-five people don't feel any different from when they were JC kids. Heck, some twenty-seven and even thirty-plus year-olds I know still haven't gotten most things figured out.

About the partying. I suppose there has been wayy more of that than in JC. But for the most part I'm still doing things like..killing time in front of the computer before I turn in at 1030. Anyways drinking is bad for the liver. And the wallet. Unless drinks are on the house in which case you throw caution to the wind and then hopefully live to regret it later.

But then she went on to say that well, she forgot that I was only 20 and that she didn't think 20 was that old after all. Haha! Case closed.