For the complete lack of anything to do...

I figured I will waste some time writing another post. Wow, talk about living a boring life. I mean, on a Friday evening, I have nothing better to do than sit at my computer and write a random blog entry for the lack of anything else to do. But why the hell is it being Friday evening a big deal?

Personally, its not. And I have often wondered why it is such a rage among almost everyone in this city. People start planning for this Friday two Fridays ago! It is as much a part of London culture as is getting drunk, eating cheap shit kebabs, or saying "Cheers mate" for anything and everything. The peer pressure to go out on a Friday evening is almost as much it is for things like owning interesting pencil boxes when you are in grade 2. Week after week, people travel in crowded tubes and buses, and if you merely smile at someone for any reason or for no reason, they look at you like you just stabbed them or something, like you are a psycho freak on the loose. And come Friday evening, they will be shit-faced, inebriated all the way to oblivion, and will be actively looking to snog with strangers. Once they are done, they probably say "Cheers mate".

I wonder what such behaviour says about the state of human society, or at least its London bits. What kind of "civilised" behaviour is this? Is intoxication a necessity for people to simply interact with each other? Is it only behind the cloak of alcohol that people can be themselves? Has sobriety reached that much of a nadir? And what does a teetotaller do then, not have any social interaction? Or perhaps pretend to have a good time in a room full of rolling drunkards?

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against getting completely trashed. What I am ranting against is the link between drunkenness and the supposed lowering of inhibitions. Why have all these fucked up inhibitions in the first place that you actively seek to lower every fucking weekend with an unhealthy overdose of alcohol? Talk of hypocrisy, double standards and all that similar jazz. I mean, its not like you don't know what you do under the influence of alcohol. Its just convenient to blame it on the alcohol, that's about it.

Oh shit, I just realised its almost 8pm! And its Friday evening!! I have other things to do, you know. Need to get ready to go out, I hate to keep people waiting. Especially when they are planning to get drunk!