Busy Bee

I've been such a busy bee these last few weeks, but things have finally settled down.

Classes are great. I think I went into detail about this before but if not heres a quick explanation. They don't have classes MWF or TT like we do, they are usually just one day for lecture (about an hour) and then a tut (lab) and the times vary but most are an hour. In the tuts you have a presentation and have to pretty much teach the class for 15 minutes about that weeks topic. I've done one of my presentations already and it went very well!

We went to Cairns last weekend and I was able to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef! It was wonderful! Since it's their rainy season the town was a little gloomy but we found our own fun and had a blast. One of the days we were in Cairns we went on an all day tour around the city and were able to see (and play with) tons of kangaroos at a wildlife reserve.

The weekend before our Cairns trip we went to a parade down Oxford street called "Mardi Gras" We didn't know that you have to get there 5 hours early and we weren't able to see any of the parade! Regardless it was fun to be in the city with everyone and we met some great friends!

When we aren't attending crazy events we go to the beach, hang out on campus or watch movies.

I haven't really hit a snag yet or found something I didn't like here. It makes me nervous because I'm already dreading leaving!

I found the YoungLife here and got involved with their club! On Friday I went to club and this Thursday I'm planning on doing contact work at the school so that will be a lot of fun!

Other then that, nothing else seems to be new. I'll update more when more stuff happens!

Much love.

I reject this Texas winter weather

I leave for Fiji in 2 days. I mean technically since it's 1 am on the 2nd I leave in only one day. 85 degrees. No snow. I have about 1 thousands things to do before I leave and there is no way I am going to finish it all. Why did I decided to wait until the last minute to finish everything? Oh, that's right, because that's how I do everything.

On Monday I had a gathering at Cici's in Frisco (where I do YoungLife) so I could say bye to the YoungLife girls before I leave. A bunch showed up and I was just overwhelmed by how lucky I am to do YoungLife in such a great area. At one point some of them went around a circle and said their "favorite things about me". Usually not my style because I'm known for disregarding every compliment I get, but it was a fun thing to see the works and time I've put into Frisco YoungLife hasn't gone unnoticed by the girls. I really am going to miss them and wish daily that I could change their high schools to make it better for them as Christians/new Christians.

Today I finished reading R.C. Sproul's commentary on Romans. It was great. I've been putting it off for months and I finally put my foot down and decided I wasn't going to take a 1/2 read book on a plane when I could just finish it in one day. So. Much. Theology. It took me about 10 hours to read 200 pages. That has never happened to me before. I am a pretty fast reader and so it was brutal to have to sit in the same spot for 10 hours reading. Nevertheless it was incredible. I definitely felt/feel the Holy Spirit moving in my heart. Good one God.

Through that study I've decided that my "theme verse" for this trip is going to be Romans 12:12,

"Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."

Starting new adventures although can be exciting, can be hard and I think if I keep this verse on my mind constantly my goal will be as clear as day. Jesus.

I'm thankful for all the support my friends and family has given me and look forward to paying everyone back with lovely pictures of Oz.

YoungLifeSeniorClub

So tonight was YoungLife Senior Club. I thought I wouldn't be emotional because I've only been with these girls for a semester. I thought that I wouldn't be that sad because I didn't watch these girls grow up and I didn't spend too much time with them before this past year.

I was wrong. I didn't get visibly emotional but at the end of club, watching the brave seniors stand on stage, in a place I was just 2 short years ago, and talk about what YoungLife has done for them was incredible. The point always being Jesus, and their appreciation for the organization. When they mentioned how much their leaders had done for them it was so touching. A girl I actually took to camp this summer came up to me after and thanked me for everything I'd done for her and in that moment I realized the gift that God gave me.

I often say that God could be doing this ministry without me and that it is a blessing that He has given me the opportunity to minister to high school girls, but to hear some of the testimonies from these students was pure blissful truth that I am the blessed one. The love I have for them is real, they have real souls and are going to go on to do real incredible things.

You're worth it.

This weekend I went on leadership retreat where I was able to hear Bob Mitchell, one of the first members of Young Life, speak. He is incredible. His dad donated money to Jim Rayburn to start up the first club (even though it was called something different then), Bob's entire family became believes because of Young Life and Bob went on to become the president of Young Life years later. Obviously he isn't too young but he is so full of knowledge, and on top of all that - he is hilarious! I took some videos of him speaking-

This one is about Jim Rayburn and a camping trip they went on. The first part got cut off but basically Bob was talking about how on the camping trip Jim had a blow up mattress and everyone else had sleeping bags and they were so upset that in the middle of the night they unplugged his mattress and let all the air out...

And this one is about him being old (:

I love him and am so blessed to have been able to listen to him speak.

my birthday is in 53 days

or something like that.

I don't care about possessions but if you feel the need.....

why not one for one?!?

Borges Cordones -size 8

Dolina Cordones -size 8

Shirt -small

I love TOMS shoes, and have had a long unwanted break with a new pair. The shoes have gotten pretty pricey so if you want to chip in $5 I would be $5 closer to a new pair! It's been toooo long. The styles go fast so I'm sure in 50 days these will be gone.

With that being said if you want to give me money I'd much rather you pledge a donation to Frisco YoungLife to get kids to camp! We are having a bowl-a-thon on April 18th (oh 2 days after my birthday, how convenient!!) and you can pledge to donate per pin I knock down!! It would be so great if you could help us out! Let me know (:

If you email me your mailing address I'll get a fundraising letter sent to you along with an extra envelope to send donations back!

God has the best sense of humor.

Instead of a weekly update I am going to give you a novel to read. Syke! But this post is going to be really long, but really worth it. Here it goes, One of my YoungLife girls sent me an email asking for advice on how to answer a question that her friend was asking her about Christianity. I worked on the response for about 2-3 hours and felt really confident about it and knew it was something I wanted to share with friends, not for my glory at all, strictly for God's glory. Here it goes.

This a copy of the email sent to one of my girls (which she forward to me):
The author of The Reason For God says that "The problem of tragedy, suffering, and injustice is a problem for everyone. It is at least as big a problem for non belief in God as for belief. It is therefore a mistake, though an understandable one, to think that if you abandon belief in God it somehow makes the problem of evil easier to handle." Fine, I agree. But, he also quotes CS Lewis in saying " My argument against God was that the universe seemed cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of "just" and "unjust"?... What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too- for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fantasies... Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple."
The author then goes on to say that "the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak- these things are all perfectly natural."
So then, how is it that though this natural selection only certain types of people or certain concentrated areas happen to be weak? Is the up to God to decide? But natural selection is scientific, and isn't is opposing to being science and religion together?. We learned today in my Global Perspectives in Intl Social Policy class that there is enough food to feed every man woman and child in the world. Yet 1 in 7 die of hunger. We also learned that a child dies every 8 seconds from hunger or hunger related illnesses. So these are the weak? Are these the people God has chosen for now to be the "Weak"? Will he change his mind and change his decision on who the "weak" are in a decade or so?.. Will he decide later on those who are currently white and rich will then be the weak? That those who are currently suffering get to change roles and become the strong?. That would be cool. But pointless if it doesn't happen within each others lives. The quote about not understanding someone else'spain and suffering until you are in their shoes would be a very good experiment if we were able to take it literal, don't you think?..

What do you think about this? I know you've gone through all the Bible stuff and you go to church.. What do they say about situations like these?..




My response:
First of all, The Reason For God is a great book and is very informative. She should probably read the whole thing to understand Timothy Keller's point of view. Tragedy, suffering and injustice is indeed a problem for everyone, but that can always go back to a dialogue of people saying "God, why is there suffering? Why is there Holocausts and slavery?" but what people don't understand is God could be saying right back at us, "Yea, why is there suffering? What are you doing as a Christian to cease suffering and famine? Are you loving people and caring for them or are you just loving the lovable?" [Matthew 5:45 in The Message says "If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that."] God isn't blaming us in an angry threatening way, but giving us an opportunity to step up and show people the love of God and we are failing time after time after time. Yes tragedy happens to everyone, even for people that are nonbelievers but it never ever says in the bible that if you become a Christian or if you believe in God that life will be easy and tragedy wont happen. In fact it says the opposite. Matthew 8:20 says "Jesus was curt:" Are you ready to rough it? We're not staying in the best inns, you know." and then not even 3 verses later it says in Matthew 23 "Then he got in the boat, His disciples with Him. The next thing they knew, they were in a severe storm.". Personally when tragedy happened my life turning to God was the greatest thing I could have done and I assume that is what Keller is getting at.
Just a little background information, C.S. Lewis use to be an atheist, and so this quote is quoting his original belief in God. Lewis has an amazing point. Just and unjust? Who says what is just? Who says what is good and what is bad? I'll give you an example from my own life. My junior year of high school I went to Young Life and at the first club my friend Nicole wrote all over my car with car paint "Young Life 7:29", "YL" and stuff like that. A few months later I was with Nicole and got in a really bad car accident, a 5 car pile up. It was my first accident and I was devastated. Everyone was exchanging numbers and freaking out, but there was this one guy, the only one close to my age, walking around not asking for anyones information, just asking questions and making sure everyone was ok. He stayed close to Nicole and I and eventually I asked him if he got all the information he needed for his insurance. He then informed me that he was the 6th car, he stopped in time and wasn't even involved in the accident. He had planned on just going around us and moving on but saw it an opportunity to be Christ, then seeing "Young Life" on the back of my car decided to stay and talk to us for a while. I was in complete shock because my spiritual life was alright, but not awesome. He then asked to pray over us and thats when it hit me. God knew I couldn't handle this event on my own and wanted to send someone that would help me through it. We stayed friends with this boy, Max, and he ended up going to Senior prom with Nicole! Now was that just or unjust? Was it unjust that I was involved in a 5 car pile up? Was it unjust that I nearly totaled a car that I worked 3 years to buy? To me and my understanding God always has a plan. He IS a just God and just because we may think that something is "unjust" doesn't mean that the light at the end of the tunnel has already arrived. Maybe when we assume something is "unjust" we are only 1/2 way through the tunnel and greater things have yet to come. "What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" What is making the universe "unjust"? Why does she think it is unjust? Because of famine or Holocaust? Again I go back to the "What are WE doing to fix this?" God gives us so many chances to step up and do something. Her argument against God is the world is unjust and that means there is no God? What about free will? Is God being "unjust" when he saves a atheists from getting in a car accident? Is he not granting her a right of free will by saving her?
Natural selection is a completely different story. Yes, natural selection still happens but in the human world. God would never say that since someone is weak they are going to hell and because they are strong they are going to heaven. In fact the last in line are the first according to Luke 14:10-11 [When you're invited to dinner; go and sit at the last place. Then when the host comes he may very well say, "Friend, come up to the front."...What I'm saying is, If you walk around with your nose in the air you're going to end up flat on your face. But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself."] Jesus himself was last in line. Jesus was a slave. I will not deny that natural selection doesn't happen because it does. In the corporate world. Luke 13:30 says "This is the Great Reversal: the last in line put at the head of the line, and then so called first end up last." I haven't heard of natural selection in years. How many times do you see someone that has brown eyes die sooner then someone with blue eyes. That is pretty much what natural selection is about, a trait that you get from your parents that gives you a longer survival rate. But if we look back in the day, natural selection was much more common. Let's look at it in terms of the bible, if God knows where everything is going to go, how things will happen and the outcome of certain things why didn't He just fast forward, skip all the sin in the old testament and get to Jesus? It all goes back to free will. You see God looks at time in a different way then how we see it. It just is there, with us there is past present and future. God sees it all. He isn't in the present watching the movie of our lives and then fast forward, it's just all there. Anyways, so through the old testament God gave us a million and one chances to make things right. To be holy and we failed several times but every time He picked us back up. Romans 11:32 says "God makes sure that we all experience what it means to be outside so that He can personally open the door and welcome us back in." If God did everything for us, if we didn't experience hardship and was just given Jesus, life would be so much harder then it is now. We would have no idea how big of a deal it was for Jesus to die. God had to show us how bad things could get before He could show us His glory and have His son die for us. If Genesis 1 started out "And Jesus died for everyone's sin" how could we compare that to anything? How would we know what sin was? How could we know what He was dying for.
When people say science and religion don't go together it breaks my heart. Through science we have been given the opportunity to see God's work. Just look at how the brain is wired. There is no way that we could have just been apes and just so happen to turn into humans who just so happened to have a huge brain increase who just so happened to form their own language and just so happened to have the right neurons and the right organs. No way. At the same time we must understand that some science classes are bias. If you've ever heard of "Lucy" its very easy to explain. "Lucy" is supposed proof that we were originally apes or whatnot, but the bones that were found to form Lucy where MILES apart. How can someone die and have all of their bones spread out everywhere? I understand it is possible because of other animals eating "her" and then poopin' her up or taking her bones somewhere else but keep in mind that there were many different species at the time and it is VERY likely that a little confusion went down and maybe one scientist "accidently" put 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12948893 different animals together to make them look like a human ancestor. The fact of the matter is that scientific facts change all the time. All the time. Almost everyday you hear about another fraud that faked something to get his name in lights. The bible is so historically backed up and it never changes. In fact, there is more proof that all the events in the bible happened, then there is proof that Alexander the great lived. We all believe that he lived so why can't we believe the bible?
I go back again to the issues of this world. They are issues of this world and God has given all of us chances to change those outcomes. Being born into a homeless family is not natural selection, natural selection "is the process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce become more common in a population over successive generations." So in a way God is doing that person a favor. He is giving them a chance to get back up. He is giving them a chance to see how bad things can get -- not because He is an unjust God or because he is hateful, because when you see how bad things could be you appreciate things when they are good. God doesn't just sit there and poke fun at us. Who is to say that He doesn't constantly give those people that are homeless or hungry chances? Do we personally know that they are getting no help? He could be giving them chances, which I'm sure He is, and they could be oblivious. Just like an atheist avoiding a car accident. God brought 600,000 slaves out of Egypt. God is not unjust. God sent His son to earth to die for people that were terrible human beings, that did not deserve to have a relationship with God because of all their sin. God is not unjust. Jesus saved so many people physically while he was on earth. Let the blind see, made the sick well, raised a girl from the dead. God is not unjust. My favorite part about this is Hebrew 13:8 "Jesus doesn't change -- yesterday, today, tomorrow, He's always totally Himself."
So in conclusion, we HAVE to trust God. Romans 8:29 says "God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of his Son." and 2 Peter 3:9 "God isn't late with His promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining Himself on account of you, holding back the End because He doesn't want anyone lost. He's giving everyone space and time to change." I really recommend you both read Romans.

This past week I have been complaining so much about how my classes have nothing to do with what I want to do with my life but if I hadn't taken Biological Anthropology and Philosophy last year I would have had no insight to this situation. What a great sense of humor God has.

Open my eyes to the things unseen.

Yesterday I was burden to skip my western civilization class and had no idea why. 20 minutes before class I prayed about going since the hot topic of the last few weeks has been religion I felt like maybe God was leading me towards staying home and reading instead. At the last minute I put everything aside and decided to go [you know since my mom is paying a ridiculous amount of money for me to go to that very class] and what I learned was priceless. The discussion started and my heart was racing, the teacher decided today's topic was Moses and the exodus of Egypt. He claimed that historically there is no proof that Moses ever existed, and there was no 600,000 person exodus out of Egypt. Now, I knew what he was saying was false because I've heard endless sermons and younglife talks about the accuracy of the Bible, plus done a small amount of research on my own. Anyways, I was so concerned about the 299 other students in my class that could have been struggling in their faith. I wanted more than anything to speak up but I knew I didn't know enough about this subject to argue so I shot a text message to Spencer, AmyKitchel and Robyn. Spencer provided me with prayer, Robyn provided me with future date to discuss notes from an old younglife talk and AmyKitchel said she'd find out more information and call me later. About 15 minutes after my class got out AmyKitchel called me and told me an incredible story. She is going through Jesus school at the moment and during class their phones must be turned off, somehow her phone got turned on while in her bag and was on loud so when I sent her that text her phone rang causing the professor to draw his attention towards the noise. He made an announcement to the class asking who it was and just to admit it so of course Amy raised her hand. The professor then told her it was okay, as long as she read the text message out loud to the class. It read "Right now my western civ teacher is saying Moses didn't exist and there was no exodus from Egypt. He is saying there is no evidence other than the bible?" She read my text causing pretty much all of her classmates to run up to her after class and let her know what to tell me resulting in her calling me and telling me this story. God is so good. After I took a step back and looked at all the events that occurred I realized that it wasn't God burdening me to skip class, it was definitely the devil. If I didn't go to class I wouldn't have thought about researching more about the history of the bible and because I did go to class I am being shown ways to speak up next time I am put in this situation. Plus 1,000,000

Classes are okay. I miss Texas. Minus 2

Last weekend I was able to go home for my dad's birthday. It was so good and he loved his birthday present (tickets to the Arkansas/A&M football game at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium). Spencer came with me and it was a lot of fun. I loved spending time with my family and am learning more and more this year how much I love them and miss them. I am so blessed to have them. My sister's house looks awesome and I'm so happy she finally has that. I also was able to spend a lot of time with Caitlin and Kathryn (I love them), two of the girls I (and Holley! love her.) took to camp. I go home on October 2nd and am excited to see everyone again. Plus 6

On Monday I was eating brunch with Caitlin and got a message on my phone saying that it couldn't make or receive calls and I had to plug it into my computer (which was 30 minutes away). I was so stressed out because I was leaving at 3 and already on a tight schedule. I went on about my day without it and once I got home I plugged it in. Nothing happened. I called apple care, they were off for labor day. I called all the apple stores, they were completely full. There are no apple stores in Arkansas so I had no choice, I had to stay another night (oh darn.) I was able to make an appointment for Monday night (through the grace of God) I had a new baby iPhone (Chuy Jr.) by 6:15 pm. Since I wasn't going home anymore I decided to go to the Frisco Young Life Sonic Pre-Club hang out! It was awesome and I'm glad I was able to see everyone again before I left. All in all it was good. Plus 5

My roommates are great. Plus 3

Some friends of mine are starting Fantasy Football and we are picking our draft tonight! Wish me luck! Plus 3

Well, that looks like a pretty full update on my life. A few more important details will be filled in at some point. If you guys could be praying for unity at the University of Arkansas with all the religious organizations that'd be awesome! They are trying to start up an all campus worship and it looks to have some real potential!

Total Points: 1,000,015

Tonight! Yes, TONIGHT!

First week of school = over! My classes seem... ok. I thought they were going to be a lot easier because they are basic classes but I know it will be alright. My western civ 1 class is going to be my toughest class because all tests are accumulative and its over lecture and the book (they don't overlap) Sad day. I can't seem to pay attention in my classes so I'm going to look in to figuring something out to keep my focus! Minus 3

I don't think I really have a "favorite class" but there are pros and cons of each class. Art History: The teacher reads from a script. Word for word. pro- its hysterical when she loses her place and makes excuses so it doesn't look like she lost her place. con- she's reading from a script and its the most boring 50 minutes of my life. Psyc: My teacher is a TA. pro- it shouldn't be too hard con- at times I feel like I know more about a subject then he does. Communications: My teacher is an Honors teacher so she's teaching the course the exact same as an honors class even though its just a regular class. pro- she really knows what she's doing and it's a lot different from a regular boring class con- I'm not getting an honors credit for an honors class. Human Diversity & Social Work: This is my major class & I'm really interested in everything we talk about. pro- 90% of the class are social work majors and everyone seems to be a "people person". Also, the teacher doesn't pronounce the "th" infront of words like the, this, then she supplements it with a "d" da, dis, den. con-the lecture is so boring. Western Civ 1: This is a 300+ lecture class pro-none con- see paragraph 1. Paying for college and getting a great education/all A's Plus 2

YoungLife is going to be amazing. Period. The first YoungLife College club was on Wednesday and it was so fun! A lot of freshman showed up and I'm really excited to get to know all the new girls. We had a little bump in the road today with High School YoungLife but it was fixed before we even had time to worry about it. Good one God. I can't wait to hear all about the details on Sunday during the leader meeting! Plus 5

In about 30 minutes I am going to the ticket office so I can camp out and buy a Arkansas/A&M Football ticket. They go on sale at 8:30 am tomorrow and Sara, Gini (some of my roommates) and I are going to camp outside and get amazing tickets! Yayyaya. I surly hope my phone doesn't die or it starts raining! Great time bonding! Plus 4

Today I was reading the last chapter of Numbers (Yes! Yes! Yes) and as I was reading I was thinking about how everything in the bible really happened. It's history, whether people believe in God or not is the only questionable thing. But everything is history and really happened. So while I was reading it I pulled up a map of all these places Moses & the gang were going and thought it was kind of neat to follow them with my finger as I read. THEN in my art history class we just so happen to talk about all the places I had read about earlier. It was awesome that I got to see the bible brought to life! Plus 10!!

I promise to put up pictures asap! Now I'm on my way to camp out for football tickets! Yay! Can't wait!

Total points: 18
Plus Jon Jordan's comment puts this blog to 100,018 points.

If you're keeping up with the prayers all my prayer requests are the same! Yall are the greatest!

I wish it was Funday.

So I've been in Arkansas for a week! Everything has started to settle down here and my friends FINALLY started to move in! My roommate moved in on Tuesday and things have been really good! Tonight we are planning a girls night out and I'm pretty excited about it! Hopefully we'll start to get to know each other a lot better and decorate our living room at some point! Chloe and I had an awesome talk last night and we seem to be into a lot of the same stuff. Like for example God. He's pretty tight. Plus 5

The other day I got a fishy and named him Cairns (after Cairns, Australia) and painted Australia on his fish bowl so he feels at home. I really think its going to work out. He is a beautiful blue Crowntail Betta, pictures will be up soon! Plus 4 (originally it was just plus 3 but I figure since it's a living creature I'll give it plus 4)

YOUNGLIFE IS STARTING! I went to the first leadership meeting last night and it was incredible. As most of you (since my mother is the only one that reads this) know I am a High School leader now and we just got some incredible news! A club room has been donated to us kind of and we'll start up at some point having regular clubs there! We really want to build relationships first and have 25-30 committed kids for our first club. It's going to be off the charts. Plus 6 for new/awesome club room and YoungLife excitement

Tomorrow is the first day of classed. Let's just say I'm not exactly thrilled because it means no more summer and study study study. I'm in Arkansas for school so I'm going to do my best and work through it, go to classes and what not but I wish I could be a little closer to home. Maybe 2 hours? That'd be great. So tomorrow/Wednesday/Friday I have Psychology & Art Lecture and then Tuesday/Thursday I have Communications, Human Diversity & Western Civ 1. This will be interesting. Minus 1

Everything else in my life seems to be pretty good. I am happy, I just wish I could fast forward to graduation and start actually living my life. There are many reasons for this that I may express one day on here. I may have to put my study abroad trip on hold and attempt to graduate early and work/go to school full time next summer to do so. We'll see and I'll be praying about it. No points.

As you can see I've decided to give my blogs points now. I'm liking it so far.
Total points= 14

Please be praying about my study abroad trip, money for school, Fayetteville High School YoungLife, possibly moving back to Texas, Frisco YoungLife, relationships, my roommates, Kristin and my 40 days of believing God, school and health.



I've also decided how I feel about drinking/such. My position is much like my vegetarianism position, and putting it into that perspective I finally understand. Follow me for a second.

I am a vegetarian because I like it. I don't really enjoy putting bad things into my body like hormones and who knows what.
I don't drink because I don't really enjoy putting bad things into my body that will alter my morals.

I don't mind when others eat meat around me or eat meat in general. That's their choice. It just makes me sad because some people have no idea how bad meat can potentially be if you don't get the good stuff.
I don't mind when others drink around me or drink in general. That's their choice. It just makes me sad because some people really think they need alcohol or others that don't even think about it they've just been doing it for so long because of peer pressure that they don't know anything else -- some don't even know they started.

I am missing out on some protein but I can get it in SO many other places! [Beans, Soy yadda yadda yadda]
I am missing out on some "fun" but honestly have you met me? You think I need alcohol to have a better time than I'm already having? I don't need alcohol to help me have fun or relax because I can have a good time without it.

Again I'd like to stress that I have nothing against meat eaters, or people that drink all the time/casually/socially/whatever floats your boat. It's just something I choose not to do and I hope everyone respects that, just like I respect everyone that decided to drink. No judgment, just observation.

I guess to me, I just don't understand why?
To have a good time? What is keeping you from having a good time without it?
To relax? I guess I'm silly but can't you just take a nap or read a good book? How about getting a massage?
To have an excuse to act crazy? Why do you need an excuse? Are you scared to be yourself?

I guess I'm just a kid.