Great post Adeline and enjoy the tour.
So much out there to see and do and certainly not boring is it but know what you mean in those early stages seeing it as impossible to have fun without being wasted like everyone else - fact is nobody was really / truly on the same wavelength as us anyway - thought they were and for a time I guess they were but it rarely lasted long before we were on completely different levels of wasted.
Tell you what was boring spending countless wasted hours and days rough as recovering in bed or wandering round like a zombie feeling like death wishing days away or needing another drink / line etc just to get going, that truly was a boring existence in reality. Glad to be free and making real and rewarding interesting and fun things to do / active & busy when required as well as truly relaxing when necessary.
Boring, nope definitely not.