Recently I head the comment “its amazing that we do the things we do sober” or at least something to that effect. My response was a bit of a joke, “hey at least I can remember it”. For some reason this 2 seconds worth of conversation stuck with me.

Its currently 1:00 in the morning (I wrote this by hand first about a week ago) but I keep mulling this over despite my better judgment.

So why is it that I don’t drink or that my friends don’t drink or use drugs. I think there are a couple of reasons for this. The obvious, clichéd, but none the less solid or good is that it is the Christian thing to do. But the question to my self is “why is that stopping you.” I’m not perfect, NO ONE IS. I don’t always do what Christ commands me how would this be any different? Second is the logical. We all know that it destroys your liver and a host of other problems. The counter point is that energy drinks increase you likelihood of developing diabetes. So that argument is nullified. also in the logical category is that I don’t think it would be fun to be drunk or wake up in a pool of my own excrement. Being logical, fun isn’t logical hence it is fun. (confusing? Welcome to my mind)

But what is the push for teens, and how is the high school culture presenting this kind of thing? Basically, peer pressure. If your at a party drinking is the “in thing.” But from experience and observation the “in thing” is rarely fun and never truly in the interest of others. I believe that the true reason why or/and how we got to this point is deep, dark, and sinister than most people, no matter what the demographic, want to admit or believe.

People are looking for some sort of filler, or simply a “good time.” But is drug use/abuse a “good time”? How often do the intoxicated do something they regret? Or has a longer effect on the people around them that is for the worse? Drugs and drinking kill sound judgment and cast common senesce overboard, if it was there at all.

I can say, in total honesty, that I do not regret a thing I have done for a “good time”.

I find comfort in knowing that only in bad company can I be found at fault for having good morals.

There are absolute rights and wrongs, but there are gray areas to just not as may as people like to believe.

Where has the average high school student gotten an undertone of hated for truth and the world. How long can my generation hide behind the facade of relativism, which is simply hiding our corruption, before we realize that it we destroy our society?

I realize that I wrote a lot and that I did ramble a bit but please don’t dismiss it as random babble.