I must say that I've got one good thing for sure going for me my whole life. It is resisting drugs and alcohol. I'm including smoking in the category of drugs. I was raised to believe them to be bad. My personal opinion I created myself is that drugs and alcohol are where people go to escape life for a brief period. Those people are weak and I give them NO sympathy. More so with drugs then alcohol. Their are just social drinkers.
Alcohol I guess relaxes the user if used moderately. Though it is a depressant and slows ones reaction time. You can't take people seriously who drink, their "loose." I've seen the effects of alcohol abuse. My uncle would get drunk and beat my brothers and I. My grandpa drinks to escape the world. Grandpa drinks and drinks till' we find him unconscious and naked.
Drugs are another story all together. I'm near positive that 70% of the students at my school do drugs, whether it me pot, mushrooms, coke, or anything ells. The first two periods I here students around me talking about the drugs they did over the weekend or that their going to get high after school. Sometimes their high at school. Drugs kill brain cells! Ya it probably feels good to escape. In the end they'll kill you.
I try to distance myself from people who use narcotics. I am aware of my fathers history and overall decided that I don't like him. He did change though, I'll give him credit for that. My Mom and dad's 80's friends use and drink. I avoid them. A good friend of mine does drugs and it really bugs me. I wanna distance myself from the person but it's the person I've been venting everything to. It hurts me to see use of drugs and alcohol and I really want nothing to do with the users.
I agree that a lot of people use drugs and alcohol for escapism.
ReplyDeleteI used to drink a lot when I was younger (I stopped and drink very rarely now, as I've mentioned), because my dad died when I was 14, and I had a really hard time coping with it, along with a lot of other things that transpired during those years of my life. I do admit that it was weak of me and I was using it as a crutch, but I was a weak girl back then, and I can't say that everyone else does those things for the same reasons I drank.
Luckily, I've grown into a strong woman who knows how to handle herself and face her problems, but I also think that period of my life and the choices that I made helped me to grow into the person that I am now. I don't think I'd be as strong or as selfless as I am today, if I hadn't taken that period of teenage selfishness to deal with my angst... if that makes any sense at all. But, in the end, those were my choices, and at twenty-four years old, I'm not going to make apologies for them now. It is what it is, y'know?
Stick to your guns, and do what is right for you. Everyone has to deal with stuff in their own way, and most people feel like they have to experience those things. I am certain that most of them will outgrow it, eventually, and you'll have a stronger, wiser friend by your side in the end. :)