Culture or Lack Thereof

As I get older (and I am right in the middle of MTV’s target audience), I really just want to be younger. I don’t necessarily want to deal with all the high school drama shit or sit out a little league season with a broken arm. I don’t want to be stupid again or hate salad. I just want to do things that make me feel younger. But I want to drink while I do them. For instance, hide-n-go-seek with a beer in hand. The problem is I don’t know enough adults who want to do that, or enough adults who will admit to wanting to do that. The girl I am dating would do it, but what fun is hide-n-go-seek with one person, especially if that person is the one you want to hide with.  People my age are all caught up in professionalism or they are hung up in college. I don’t want college back. But I don’t want to just slip into my dad’s shoes and go from there. There is a balance between suits and sprinkler games. If there isn’t, then I’ll be damned. People between the age of 21 and 25 need to forget all this self-identity, start a career horse manure. Fact is, nobody cares about us except for MTV, and they only care about what kind of show we want to see sex in. We are the lowest (of college grads) on the economic scale, we rent apartments (which once would have kept us from voting),  we really try to care about politics but we don’t vote (”those damn kids”) and when we have kids we “generally aren’t ready.” We’re a worthless demographic. We need to accept our plight and party like we are between the ages of 21 and 25. Keg stands are longer cool, but charity auctions and political rallies are not our style either. Therefore, I propose we take what we want from both worlds. Let’s pull out our games (Twister, Clue, Shoots and Ladders, etc) and pull out our drinks (all alcoholic) and accept this transitional, shitty, “no place in society” stage. And let’s stay employed! 

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