It's funny how your parents are a hundred times more strict, controlling, and conservative than mine are, yet you're way more out of control than I've ever been. I know why, it's because they kept you under control for so long, and once they finally gave you a chance to rebel, you did all the way because it felt so good to be free. Almost as if to make up for all the years you DIDN'T do that stuff. Drinking, smoking, and partying all the time. Meanwhile, I, whose parents tend to completely trust, prefer staying at home on most weekends and reading or watching a movie. I've had way more freedom to rebel than you. And I did, but not NEARLY as much as you did/do. I tried smoking, I tried drinking, I tried all that a few times. And I stopped. By my own choice. Just because I didn't like it much. Yet once your parents eased up on you, you do it literally every day now. Hearing the stuff you say about your partying to your friends makes you sound so retarded, and you'd realize it too if you just stepped back and listened to yourself. It's annoying, I miss the old you who wasn't super into that stuff....I know how annoying it is when people say stuff like this about drugs and such, but whatever. None of this will really matter in a few years I imagine, so why not?

Yep.