When you grow old you won't regret the things you did, but the things you didn't.
In my time I have done illegal raves, had sex with a porn model, started a bar in Ibiza, done drugs, started a crash-and-burn dot-com, and all sorts of other crazy stuff. But when I talk to my friends now (im in my mid-thirties) they wish they had not held back, and just gone with their ideas.
So get going, you have nothing to lose... If it fails at least you tried, your friends will envy you for having the guts to try, and in 10 years you will have a great story to tell.
Interestingly, a lot of people would probably say this is all very unprofessional, hurting my future chances, bad career planning and what have you. But my experience has been to the contrary: Because I have met a lot of different people and done a lot of different things I tend to have a broader perspective on things. And nobody has ever held anything I have done against me.
Reminds me of how Steve Jobs said Gates would be a broader guy if he had done acid.
Doing crazy, unconventional stuff is a really good idea. If you don't take risks, ever, you can really get messed up. But when it comes to drugs...I don't know, I wasn't there, I don't know the kind, the purity, the dealer, etc. It might have been a really bad idea. If you took a bad risk but turned out alright, that doesn't mean it was a good risk to take. It's like winning at Russian Roulette. But again, I wasn't there.
Plus, not all drugs were created equal. Steve Jobs doesn't think acid is so bad, and he didn't do too shabby.
In my time I have done illegal raves, had sex with a porn model, started a bar in Ibiza, done drugs, started a crash-and-burn dot-com, and all sorts of other crazy stuff. But when I talk to my friends now (im in my mid-thirties) they wish they had not held back, and just gone with their ideas.
So get going, you have nothing to lose... If it fails at least you tried, your friends will envy you for having the guts to try, and in 10 years you will have a great story to tell.