I guess I'm young, but I feel so weary.

Lately I've been going out a lot, and I enjoy it. I really do. There are few things better than numbing your senses and inhibitions with alcohol and substances surrounded by a group of people that you love. Recently, however, I had a sober discussion with my friend about "why?" Just why do we do this? Why do we as humans, specifically, young humans, feel the need to constantly alter their natural state of sobriety. Why should we? Why do different rules apply for when we are sober and for when we aren't. Why is it that if I feel attracted to a stranger on the street and decide to approach them and introduce myself and try to solicit a date that I would be considered "weird" or sketchy?" Yet if I'm in a bar I can, without social repercussions (for the most part), just go up to any odd person on the dance floor and without introduction start dancing with them, in an attempt to touch them, in an attempt to kiss  them, in an attempt to... well... you know.  Obviously, not all such attempts are successful but when your in a bar and the music is playing and the drinks are flowing, different rules apply. You aren't considered creepy for an attempt at a connection when you're packed tightly into a tiny, dark room imbibing drink after drink. I don't have any answers to these question, a few theories, but none developed enough to put into coherent sentences. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, as much as I enjoy going out, impairing my senses and having a good time, I just don't fully understand why we do it. Maybe I'm just at the point in my life where thats what I need to get to what comes after. All I know is that it takes its toll. The late nights add up. But why does it seem so much harder to have fun, or make connections unimpaired. And with that I will end this post and continue to deal with my first world, twenty-something problems.