Be Yourself

"Come on, take the pot. No one will know except or us."

This was the begining of the worst part of my year. I was hanging out at an aquaitance's house and was offered drugs. I was under the pressure of friends that I thought cared for me. I took the drugs offered to me, and I got high with them. It is the biggest mistake that i have ever made in my entire life.

 I realized afterwards that my mother and grandmother would find out, and I didn't want them to be dissapointed in me, their darling baby girl. I tried to keep it a secret, but my mother found out from someone that i thought I could trust. This is what happend after the fact.

 I went to school the next day feeling sick from the drugs that I had done the night before, and my school work suffered from it. When I got into Physical Education I decided to play sick and sit out. later that day when I got home, my mother came up to me and asked if there was something that I wanted to tell her. I pretended like I didnt know what she was talking about, but she knew. She knew that if she gave me a drug test I would fail it. We both knew, and deep down inside I could feel the dissapointment. Not only from my family, but from those that I care about and those that I have looked up to my entire life.

 My mother told me what could result from doing drugs, for she had done hem herself. I was, and still am horrified of what could have happened to me. I am grateful that GOD did not want to make me a vegetable or kill me. Before the incident I thought that I lived my life to the fullest every day, that I talked to those that I cared about and those who cared about me every day.

But after it I realized that i only looked at the glass as half empty, not half full. Now that it is over I spend every day thinking about the things that I could do to make my life and those around me easier. I learned a lesson the day that i accepted those drugs, and that lesson is that no one ever needs to succumb to peer-pressure to feel that they are going to feel better about themselves, or that their friends will like them more. Don't do what you know is wrong, follow your instincts and if need be investigate further into the matter that troubles you.

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