What's wrong with the world today?

Seriously, what is going on? I have few pet peeves, but number 1 on my list is definitely immaturity. I've found that I deal with it a lot too, but in several different forms. First, I hate when people are obviously not on the best of terms, but they won't just come out and talk about it. Sitting around stewing in your own anger does nothing to benefit anyone. I will admit that I myself am sometimes guilty of this, but more often then not it's to avoid vicious confrontation. I am not a very confrontational person, but I will stand up for myself when I need to. I've put up with a lot of unnecessary bullshit over the years, but I've been doing a much better job of being assertive lately. I really realized how immature people in general are when I went out with my fabulous boyfriend tonight. It apparently is prom night at every high school in Wake County, for there were prom-goers everywhere. I was appalled at their behavior in public tonight. They went around with no concern for the regular people that were trying to enjoy a nice evening out, spending several hours in restaurants and taking up tables that other people had to wait for 45 minutes for. Also, there were lots of younger middle school aged children out because their parents didn't want to pay for a babysitter so they set them loose. It has become the policy for many if not all movie theaters in Raleigh to not allow people under the age of 18 to go to movies after a certain time. My senior year of high school, I was only 17, and every time my friends wanted to come to Raleigh, we always ended up having to change our plans because I wasn't old enough to stay out as late as they wanted. However, now that I'm in college and I see the way these kids act, I'm completely in favor of these rules. People shouldn't have to pay for the fact that these kids' parents are incompetent, lazy, and downright stupid. Finally, I'm amazed at the amount of people that I come in contact with here at NC State that still have no idea what they want to do with their lives. It's almost like they're using college as a way to put their lives on hold until they come up with something. If mommy and daddy are paying for college, I feel that these students owe it to their parents to come up with some sort of plan. The way I think about it, if they go out into the world and they hate their career path, they can always go back to school, but they should pay for it themselves the 2nd time around. I'm planning on going to veterinary school when I finish my Animal Science degree, and I'm not sure how I'm doing it yet, but I'm going to do my best to pay for as much of it as I can on my own. I just don't feel like parents should be forced to pay for junior to waste his life away.