in college you have a bubble in which to socialize, drink, and completely incapacitate yourself knowing that you have friends who will take care of you and your bed is merely feet away no matter where you are.

therefore it is utterly acceptable if not glamorous to lead the life of a lush, a libertine...

once you are outside of this, it is of the utmost importance to change these ways. in the city, there are beds close by, but they arent yours... there are friends, but they will come and go...

the real world is a place of disease and pestilence, police officers and murder and perverts and freaks... if one acts like a college student in this environment they will quickly be eaten alive.

i speak not as someone who has been eaten alive, but as someone who almost was.