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As teenagers living in a small town, we are left with very few pastimes and leisurely activities. There aren’t any cool places to go and hang out socially and because of this we are left with the choice of under-aged drinking. We get our older siblings, or older friends to buy us the alcohol that we need, we drink it, have tons of fun,’ and throw up everywhere. Well at least most of us do, some of us have dealt with the abnormalities of alcoholism and have chosen to take a different path, for the better. Around me, my peers mindlessly consume alcohol and won’t realize its disastrous ffects in the long run.
Watching my alcoholic father as a kid really showed me what type of parent I never want to be. Although my father has killed off his alcohol abuse, my father constantly abused alcohol and my siblings and I had to deal with it all the time, growing up. I believe it affected us in different ways. It scared me and I’m sure it scared my siblings, but how we matured having this in our heads would be a completely different writing assignment. My siblings are also under this autonomous, small town pastime of partying.
We all equally had to deal with the horrors of lcoholism growing up, but we chose to take different paths, alcoholically. You’d think some of wouldVe learned by now. I love my siblings more than anything, but hearing about their alcohol use really angers me because of what we had to deal with, growing up. Being a senior in high school, I constantly hear people tell me about this upcoming party and that upcoming party, or a party one of my friends went to last week. I hear about how wasted one of my friends was, and how theyre ready for the next weekend.
They are completely unaware of what’s going on inside of our bodies nd what the alcohol is actually doing to us. This whole writing assignment might be kind of ironic, it being Red Ribbon Week, but I observe and look closely at my peers who mindlessly take in alcohol and watch it control them. Some of us don’t even think twice when downing a shot of tequila, or shot gunning a beer, some of us soak up the poison, watch it control us, and call it fun. ‘ Some of us give in to the peer pressure of partying and we watch more and more of our peers appear at these functions, ready to have a “good time. I might sound like a prude, but this point of contact goes ompletely unnoticed by my generation and we are incompetent to the affects it will have on our future. I discourage drinking and I might seem ‘lame’ to my other peers, but drinking isn’t worth it and things that could possibly happen while intoxicated are definitely not worth it. Red Ribbon Week really is a great initiative because it challenges those who are bound to alcohol and it really urges them to do the right thing. Society urges us, as adolescents, to fit in. ‘ If we want to be cool we have to go out and party with our classmates and have a good time.
We don’t think about what it could do to our future and what type of parent we could end up like. Sometimes, we have to look into detail and develop a point of contact with certain issues. We have to address them and work to become more productive members of society. A great leader is one who makes the best possible choices when no one is looking. As Cosell always said, “What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right. ” Works Cited “Howard Cosell. ” BrainyQuote. com. Xplore Inc, 2013. Web. 30 October 2013. http:// wrww. brainyquote. com/quotes/quotes/ Mhowardcose289