Awesome thread when there's this amount of stonage. Cool post, Penguin.

There was a point in my life when I always had loads of friends; they were all the 'cool' kids, but I didn't consider myself one... just a guy who hung with them. I dunno if that was true or not, and I don't care. I guess I just didn't ever feel like I totally fitted in. As far as I remember I was the first (or one of the first) out of all of us to smoke weed. Occasionally a friend would smoke a bit (it was usually the chicks) but I was the first 'stoner'. I instantly fell in weed, and even though I hung around with the same friends just the same, I was always then a bit 'different' because I smoked alot. Eventually, at parties and stuff, I met a load of stoners who were slightly older then me, and hung out with them most of the time.. it was awesome. For the first time in my life I had friends who enjoyed the same things as me, and the same music. But eventually my tastes started to change, and so did I, and gradually grew apart from them.. I went a while without many friends, or at least no close friends.. my 'social circle' seemed to me like just a bunch of random people. I became slightly depressed, and started occasionally doing speed and ecstacy, and got really into ecstacy.. I got to a point where me and friends were doing a few every Friday and Saturday... But I saw how fucking stupid I was being and then began to alienate what friends I had left. I stuck to weed from then on, and spent alot of time alone, but being really happy (probably coz of only smoking weed instead of getting wasted all the time) and doing the things I enjoy. That phase of my life went on for a while, until recently actually... I still have a load of friends, but they still just feel like acquiantances, as Lily so elegantly put it. But then through learning an instrument, joining a band and getting a new job i'm starting to go out alot more, and to socialise way more. But I still love getting stoned at home with some munchies and some really chill music... hehe