Choose Your Character

While watching my newly discovered favorite TV series "Weeds" last night, I had an epiphany that might explain how we in our teens decide to focus our energies. For the record, I think pot and all pot related humor is pretty worthless, but this series actually makes it look exciting to sell controlled substances.

So growing up, teenagers inevitably hit what I call the "crazy age". This is the age at which they begin to fall into the big vices of adolescence. Being drugs, booze, sex, and violence, although this list is certainly not all inclusive.

Obviously this works on the percentage system in that a teen can only invest a certain percentage of 100% into each. Me personally, I was never into drugs, and pretty much had to replace sex with porn (because I'll admit, I was not a chick magnet at the time). So I would say I was mastering a "Vice Split" of; Porn 70%, Booze 20%, Violence 10% (I was an angry teen).

I would further argue the whole notion of "Vice Split" as leading to a certain talent, albeit socially undesirable, in the future. We've all met the people that know how to build a pot pipe out of a piece of dental floss and a cupcake, or someone that knows how to mix any drink on earth. These are people that during their teen crazy years, focused their attention towards a specific vice over most others.

Mine being porn, I specialized in everything nasty under the sun (and learned how to sell porn to classmates by 10th grade). Recently, I was humbled. I thought I knew everything about sex, both normal and abnormal, until I read this article. Yikes.