Your days of being wild

[Jacob]

Damn you folks are some wild ones. 

... only when compared to the likes of Mono

[lustindarkness]

I'm still wild.

[Savonarola]

Bouncing around jobs internationally is living wild?
Well call me Paddy McParty.
And all this time I thought it was the economy

Yeah, you're the Geordie Jack Kerouac.

And every time I heard a person talk French, it didn't matter if it was Swiss-French, Belgian-French, French-French or Canadian-French, I'd die a little each time inside - until the whole world became a void, a wasteland, an empty shell of the world.  Here among the wretched streets in this wretched Swiss town, where no one ever gave a thought to anything but money or chocolate every day had become a living nightmare with their language, that awful, awful language echoing everywhere, in every building or bar, around every corner, on every bus in every station, everywhere.

[Capetan Mihali]

I've never been a wild guy, but compared to this lot... I definitely ended up in some weird and semi-dangerous situations, and let my hair down a little more between ages 17 and 24, certainly.  Suffice to say: I inhaled.  (And not just pot.)  But I'm reluctant to get into the specifics.

[katmai]

I don't understand the question.

[DontSayBanana]

I was too poor and too isolated to be "wild" as a kid.  Something tells me my midlife crisis is going to be EPIC.

[Capetan Mihali]

Oh, plenty of poor and isolated youngsters manage to get into heaps of trouble, believe me.

[Maladict]

I signed up to Languish around 2004 so I could unleash my wild side that wouldn't be accepted in the real world.

[garbon]

I signed up to Languish around 2004 so I could unleash my wild side that wouldn't be accepted in the real world.

And then decided to hang out on the wall?

[Maladict]

I signed up to Languish around 2004 so I could unleash my wild side that wouldn't be accepted in the real world.

And then decided to hang out on the wall?

The wall?

[Capetan Mihali]

Hang out on the wall i.e be a wallflower, originally a person who was too timid to enter the dance floor and instead lined the walls observing the action; here, that would essentially mean you lurk.

[Maladict]

Hang out on the wall i.e be a wallflower, originally a person who was too timid to enter the dance floor and instead lined the walls observing the action; here, that would essentially mean you lurk.

Oh right. Kind of worrying that someone would think I was being serious. 

[Savonarola]

One of my cousins (sister of the guy who just had his window shot out) is something of a free spirit.  She's been an au pair in a couple European countries and South Africa; worked a couple dead end jobs overseas, got really into acid for some time, studied yoga in Indonesia and is now contemplating a move to the big island of Hawaii with her fiance to open her own yoga retreat.  They're there right now, they live in a primitive campground without electricity or running water where they perform some menial tasks to defray the cost of their stay.  They have no transportation, and rely on hitchhiking in order to make it to town.  My cousin has found a job helping a guy with either autism or Asperger syndrome deal with people, but she has to hitch hike to that job too.  Naturally her mother (my godmother) is appalled by all of this; but I suspect in a decade she'll be the most successful person I know and will amuse people with her stories of her days of being wild.

I caught up with her during my last trip to Detroit.  She and her fiance got married; she's still teaching yoga and working a couple dead end jobs.  Her husband doesn't have his green card yet; but they bought an acre on the big island (not on the The Bishop Estate, so they own it outright) where he spends his time "Growing things" ( .)

The primitive campground they were first living was dubbed a "Hedonostel" by the inhabitants.  There current location is still pretty ramshackle, and nearby the hedonostel.  They had to have a friend stay at their place while they were back in Michigan otherwise everything would have been stolen.