Beautiful beaches, Sun, Sea and a week away from home. Perfect, right? At the moment the majority of my friends are sunbathing in Malia, Greece in 34oc heat enjoying life and making amazing memories. Going on a clubbing holiday to Magaluf, Malia or Zante is surely at the top of every 19 year olds to do list but its not on mine at all. Dont get me wrong I dream of travelling around the World "someday" but I'm just different from my friends. The thought of being in a overcrowded club in a Foreign Country surrounded by people who probably should've stopped doing jagerbomb shots that afternoon, including all my friends, is not my idea of a good time. I love my friends and have known them for years, one of them I've actually known my whole life, which has only made it more obvious to me how different I am.
Throughout Secondary School we all had our awkward phases of having spots and braces, then being 15 and going to our local under 16's nightclub with our new clothes and too much Makeup, frantically ordering our parents to pick us up in the next road cause we can't be seen getting into our mums car. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed these mid teen club experiences and none of us could wait til our 18th birthday where we could go clubbing every weekend if we wanted to. Fast forward 4 years and my friends have followed the expected path of going to Uni or working, then going clubbing most weekends and making lots of new friends from drunk nights out with a great story to go along with it. I have been clubbing and love getting ready with everyone whilst listening to music, imagining how the night will go.
But once im there I get major anxiety about so many people surrounding me, pissed off at the creepy guys who think its alright to touch my arse and worried about the girls passed out in the corner. Im just not a club person, and I've realised thats ok. My friends tell me about that time they puked on their bed and then fell asleep in it while I cringe and perish the thought, and they laugh at my reactions. I've realised I'm a lot happier doing things that make me happy than I would be going along pretending to enjoy things others do, because there's not point in that and if you feel you have to you need better friends. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." Maya Angelou
