Drugs+Awareness

Drugs are horrible. They entice you with new experiences, and once you try them they pull you under deep. Most are only teenagers when they try their first addictive drugs, convinced by either relatives, friends, dealers, or just a passerby. It starts out small, it always does. But soon the problem gets bigger, and someone can easily become preoccupied with the drug. People always say that it won’t happen to them. You’ll do it once, try it once, and just tell yourself that it’s the only one time. But then you try it again, and again, and again. And soon you’re addicted. And then you think, Oh, I’ll get off it. No one will ever find out. But then you DO get found out, and that’s the end. It’s rehab and prison for you. 

 I have always been a curious person. Someone who tries everything not because they want to, but because they feel like they should understand it. In each situation I try to put myself in another person’s shoes, so that I understand why they’re doing what they are. This urge to experience everything will be hard to suppress in this case. The push won’t be peer-pressure or self-esteem, it’s going to be the pure curiosity of it. I’m going to have to hold back that curiosity by saying to myself, “It’s not worth it.” And I don’t think it will be worth it to try anything. Of course, there’s that little section of my brain that wants me to try it JUST ONCE, so that I can experience “that high” and ‘ll understand better what they’re talking about when former addicts talk about wanting to reach it. But I’ll have to hold back and just continue telling myself “It’s not worth it.” Because it isn’t.

