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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JareshInyo_A: [QB] Despite my recent statement of not planning on returning, circumstances have brought me here, it would seem. I doubt most people will agree with me, but I just want to get this out. It was half past three in the morning when I started writing this, but I knew that I won't be able to sleep until I get it out of me. I don't care if anyone even responds, but I need to say this. Inhibitions By Matt Gurney Which teenager hasn�t heard the argument of �Alcohol isn�t bad, it just let�s you let go of your inhibitions and have a good time,�? Who hasn�t heard the argument that drugs aren�t bad because it lets people act out more freely? These theories are a part of growing up, I suppose, but when I hear people say thing like this, there�s only one thing I wanted to ask them. When did having inhibitions become a bad thing? I, like any seventeen year old, like to have a good time. I like to be able to skip a class in order to spend time with friends. I like to stay out late, having a good time. I like being able to laugh and joke with my peers. But why must the inhibitions come down before that can happen? I have always stuck to my beliefs. I�ve clung to them fiercely, because at the end of the day, my beliefs are all that I really know to be true. People lie, situations change, but my beliefs don�t. It hasn�t been easy. After a bad day, there�s temptation to allow alcohol to dull the pain. When something goes wrong in my life, it�s tempting to simply ask one of the guys at school for some marijuana, so that I can forget my troubles for only a few bucks. When I feel lonely, it�s understandable to want to feel close to someone else, even if that closeness is only physical. But that�s not what I�m about. I don�t hide from my problems � I solve them, or at the very least face them. I have never turned to drugs of any kind to make things a bit easier. I have never been drunk, so that I might have a good time, damn the consequences. Sure, I�ve consumed alcohol, but I always draw the line before I become even �tipsy�. Because it�s that line who makes me who I am. Inhibitions exist for a reason. They exist to keep us clean. They exist to remind us that what is easy should always take a backseat to what is right. It�s never easy to go against your conscience. So instead of using a chemical to make it easy, I just don�t do it. It�s a hard life, always trying to do the right thing, no matter how painful it might be. It�s a frustrating life, seeing those you care about the most cheating their own consciences. It�s also an indescribably lonely life, knowing that the only person you can count on to do the right thing is yourself. But it�s the only life I could ever imagine living. It�s the only life I ever would want to live. I weep for the fact that I have to live it alone, but I�d rather be alone and myself than be surrounded by people and someone else. My conscience is who I am. I am not an overly religious person; I do not belong to any church. But I know that some things are right and some things are wrong � no exceptions! I don�t know what instilled that knowledge in me, whether it be God or my parents or society, but I know that I am helpless before my own convictions. If I dare violate them, no matter what the temptation, I�ll have to pay a price for it - the price of shame and humiliation. Saying that something �Takes away your inhibitions� is the same thing as saying �It allows you to cheat your own conscience.� If something doesn�t feel right, don�t drink to make it right, accept that it�s wrong and take solace from the fact that you�re doing what�s best, for you. Don�t do it for friends or religion, do it for yourself. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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