There are a certain few experiences I feel that are central to the experience of being a teenager- they're sort of ingrained in the collective perception of youth, or at least they are in my mind. This is a list of the things I want to complete by the time these years are done.
1) Go on a road trip. The road trip must go through the desert. The road trip must be confined to the continental United States. The road trip must take us to California. The car must be old. The motels must be sketchy. I will go alone, or with friends. We will take lots of photographs. It will be our coming-out in the traditional sense of the world.
2) Get a fake ID and go somewhere. A strip club? A concert? An X-rated movie? A lounge? A bar? The world is my oyster.
3) Get so drunk I throw up. Steal the alcohol from a parent. Never do it again.
4) Have sex in the back of a car. Maybe in the school parking lot, after a football game. During a football game. In the woods. Down the street from my house.
I don't know where these ideas came from- I can't think of one particular movie or TV show or book where they happened, but I feel that fragments of all the words I have consumed have fused to form these images in strangely specific detail.
I feel that I must do these things in order to have lived to the fullest- I don't know if they'll all happen, but they damn well should.
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