Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Member # 25
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It's the day I'd been waiting for a long time but now that it's arrived, I feel like shit.
Yes folks, I'm 21 today. I've had two different people tell me that it's all downhill from here - they were obviously joking, but it doesn't do me much good. I need reassurance, please
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[This message has been edited by Orion Syndicate (edited January 31, 2000).]
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Well, I am imminently facing my 22nd birthday in a few days, so am suitably philosophical at the moment. I cannot cite much from my personal experience to encourage you, but consider this:
Statistically, you are likely to have for more sex in the remainder of your life than you had in the begining of it.
And you can have a drink in America! *chuckles*
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Actually, America is all of N. America and S. America. So, Monty's statement is slightly inaccurate because the legal drinking age in Canada is 19.
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That would explain the brain problems that everyone from the UK I've ever talked to...kidding, kidding!
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Of course, in the US, it's 21, and they still start at 12 or 13. And everyone wonders why I say people are stupid...
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Er...in Las Vegas, the drinking age is, IIRC, the same as in the rest of the U.S. Gambling is, of course, legal, but prostitution is not. (It is, however, legal in certain counties in Nevada, but not statewide, and Las Vegas does not happen to be in one of those counties.)
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Your life from age 0 to 21 is like getting out of bed, taking a shower and having breakfast.
The rest is what happens after you open the door and go outside. There's a potential for more excitement than you can stand, terror, love, anger, betrayal, loyalty, realizing you can have an effect on the world (just not the way you fantasized about in school), and more.
If you think turning 21 is anticlimactic, you haven't experienced life yet. 21 is just the starting gun.
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Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Member # 25
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Oh goody, you mean I've actually got something to look forward to?
Naah, I feel alright now. It was just this feeling that I was getting old. There's just so much that I want to do with my life, but I realised yesterday that it was just the beginning. I can do so much now, and I will. I have opportunities that my parents or their parents never had and I am going to avail myself of them.
Frank: I'd never trust a man who didn't feel better at the prospect of getting more sex. It's all pre-programmed. We're meant to get out there and sow our seed..... *ducks to avoid the barrage of objects thrown by the women*
------------------ Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
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