What is wrong with people? It's so horribly sad to walk through the halls of my dorm and around my campus listening to the dreams and aspirations of my fellow students. Any one want to guess what the top ambitions of most students are? To drink and to have sex. I wonder if they don't know that there is so much more to life than these two things. I wonder if they really understand true joy and fulfillment. I wonder if they'll make it out of college and through their 20's alive....
For Creative Writing today, he read Ann Beattie's short story, A Vintage Thunderbird. While I enjoyed her writing style, the story was very sad and disturbing. It seemed full of shallow and hollow individuals who participated in casual sex and longed for more out of life, but seemed oblivious as to how to obtain it. At one point, a pregnant, married woman offers sex to a friend who had a bad phone conversation with a woman he barely knew. Is this really how people live?
I'm very sorry if this offends someone, but I just don't understand that type of lifestyle. It seems so empty. I wish these people could see what they're missing: being able to count your lovers on one hand and looking forward to something else besides getting wasted. It just seems like a lousy way to go through life.
