I feel you . my total debt is 23878 . 69 and I ' m the same age as you . a majority of this is my car ~ 14 k and the rest is CC Debt and A private loan . <| sep |> Shitty dive bars in seattle sell what are basically doubles for $ 4 <| sep |> SL 8 converted to look like an XM 8 . <| sep |> So the idea of using drugs to mentally remove yourself from reality to temporarily feel good ignoring how dangerous many drugs are and their crippling addictiveness is entirely foreign to me and against my idea of a happy life . Television ? Fiction novels ? Video games ? You also never really back up why this is against your idea of a happy life , and you never explain what your idea of a happy life is . Plenty of people have a happy and fulfilling life doing the three things I mentioned as well as drugs . You ' re judging it as a waste of money because it doesn ' t make you happy ? Who are you to judge what makes people happy ? I ' m sorry , but it ' s just not right in my eyes . That ' s not an argument .