[anti]

i have never seen anyone start anything to look cool in relation to drugs and alcohol. it's a bullshit school of thought that's easy to buy into. they do it because they like it.

i grew up thinking drugs were ridiculous, i'm one of those people you mentioned. but you know what, i was young and impressionable; and the general population disagrees with using drugs; so of course that's how i felt. i didn't know any better because i never had any perspectives from the positive side to teach me or tell me the positives (there are some believe it or not). all i had were parents, teachers, peers, and the media building all these negative connotations around drugs and drinking. of course as a younger kid i took them all in and that was that. as people get older, they get curious. they start to look at the other side of things, and DEAR GOD they might even try it and like it. it happens all the time through life with lots of things. people change their minds, because people change. simple as that. and you know what, yeah sometimes the negatives outweigh the positives, but i'm not willing to live my life sheltered.

[geRV]

You can call bullshit school of thought all you like, the people i know who are now homeless, jobless, penniless and living day to day at the bottom of a bottle would disagree.


Obviously some people like it and can control it, others do it and find themselves in a situation thats hard to escape from. If it were so easy to just give up for them than i don't think there would be as many alcoholics in the world. The same can be said for any addiction, do you really think that everyone addicted to something do it because they like it? Possibly at the start then they reach a realisation that its not a matter of liking it, its a matter of needing it. When you reach that point that trying to get off it while fighting the craving becomes a battle.

And by the way i wasn't talking about you. im referring to experiences in day to day life not on a messaging program.