Younger cousins of mine are entering their rebel years. I’ve cleaned up a lot in the last handful of years, and am reclusive so they don’t see me much. It’s always kinda fun when they try to shock me with Slayer or Cannibal Corpse, and I get to show them my suicidal black harsh noise band I maintained from highschool through college.
Edit: when I say clean up, I just mean started focusing on school and toned down my clothes. Straight edge has been a way of life for me, always.
Makes me think of a family thing where one young cousin of mine was obviously baked. And everyone knew it. Everyone could see, everyone could smell it. But nobody cared. So the lil fella just sat in the corner the whole time slyly grinning to himself and giggling. Some months later I joked about it in another family gathering and the guy was shocked to find out we knew about weed and what it smelled like.
Weed, ah, what a new fangled thing. Tbh I’ve been in the almost exact position. Something comforting how it keeps happening.
As a teenager a friend and I made up some excuse to sneak away from the adults to go get high. One of the adults knowingly mimed smoking a joint to us.
I always used to smoke at work when I worked as a janitor in my 20s. One time my manager grinned at me as I was coming back in from my break and asked if I was feeling tired. I can keep it together, but the droopy eyelids are a dead giveaway lol
Lemme clarify that when I say clean up, I mean focused on school and toned down my clothing. I’ve been straight edge my whole life and it was often a lyrical theme. I just stopped sounding like a bag of quarters from all the chains on my leather jacket. I look closer to goth Milo from the Descendents.
Younger cousins of mine are entering their rebel years. I’ve cleaned up a lot in the last handful of years, and am reclusive so they don’t see me much. It’s always kinda fun when they try to shock me with Slayer or Cannibal Corpse, and I get to show them my suicidal black harsh noise band I maintained from highschool through college.
Edit: when I say clean up, I just mean started focusing on school and toned down my clothes. Straight edge has been a way of life for me, always.
Makes me think of a family thing where one young cousin of mine was obviously baked. And everyone knew it. Everyone could see, everyone could smell it. But nobody cared. So the lil fella just sat in the corner the whole time slyly grinning to himself and giggling. Some months later I joked about it in another family gathering and the guy was shocked to find out we knew about weed and what it smelled like.
Weed, ah, what a new fangled thing. Tbh I’ve been in the almost exact position. Something comforting how it keeps happening.
As a teenager a friend and I made up some excuse to sneak away from the adults to go get high. One of the adults knowingly mimed smoking a joint to us.
“How did you know,” we asked.
“I’ve been 16. You’ve never been 40,” he said.
I always laugh at kids who think casual sex was somehow just invented last year.
I always used to smoke at work when I worked as a janitor in my 20s. One time my manager grinned at me as I was coming back in from my break and asked if I was feeling tired. I can keep it together, but the droopy eyelids are a dead giveaway lol
Congrats on cleaning up while still keeping it real
Lemme clarify that when I say clean up, I mean focused on school and toned down my clothing. I’ve been straight edge my whole life and it was often a lyrical theme. I just stopped sounding like a bag of quarters from all the chains on my leather jacket. I look closer to goth Milo from the Descendents.
Ah my mistake. Good clarification. I’ve never been one to wear my interests, so it didn’t occur to me.
Cool that you’ve been straight edge your whole life! So many people take a detour into abusing mind altering substances, especially at a young age.