Roomates partying downstairs

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I rent a house with two others, and tonight they're partying. I just really can't stand people my age. Stupid, lazy, hedonistic.

As I'm working on the draft of a new film script, I can hear the subwoofer is blasting so loud I can feel the vibrations up in my room on the second floor. When I came down for a snack, I found shotglasses on the countertop, vodka bottles, and a fridge full of beer and red bull. Pathetic what people will spend their money on, and do for fun.

Why is a good time always a matter of noisy music, drinking, and idiotic games that facilitate more drinking? Why must people hammer their senses, or alter them to have a good time? Why are most people content to wallow in such unenlightened stupidity?

All my spare time I spend working on things to speed my climb up....new scripts, grant requests for funding, reading as much as I can in books and online. I've even taken to studying card counting. I enjoy a good game of chance, but I also enjoy control.

I do wish to be included, but I'm beginning to realize that I don't particularly respect most people, at least, in the activities they choose to waste their free time and money on.

I'm going to keep working, to make myself better, so I can one day surround myself with the right kinds of people who see how rich life can be, rather than waste time with such mindless pastimes.

I'm a recently diagnosed Aspie, middle aged. I remember when I was in college having similar thoughts to yours. I viewed college as a miraculous stroke of luck to pursue the subjects I loved - getting out of working meaningless jobs 40 hours a week struck me as the best thing ever. Whenever the weekends rolled around (wed - sun for my university) I found myself as one of the few who did not get wasted and sit around talking with large groups of people. I could understand that behavior if I was working a dead end job for a living, but it seemed an incredible waste of time and energy. Many years later I still believe how I viewed the situation was the correct one, and I would repeat my actions if given another chance.

Keep doing what you love, and pay no heed to the large groups of people who don't know the gift they are throwing in the trash - you are one of the wise ones!

James

I felt and thought pretty much the same way than you two during university.

However, given that I lived at home, I often felt lonely and I sort of miss not having had more fun socially during university. , no

I also think that it is important to make the most of your time in terms of productivity, which I definitely did during college.
However, I'm starting to realize that I didn't really have a social life then, which I'm starting to regret now.

I've always suffered because of feeling so 'weird' or 'different' ... Socializing more would have been a good way to fit in better.

I'm not saying I should have gotten drunk or taken drugs, nonono. I'm just saying socializing to some extent is as important as working hard.