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 Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:52 pm
Hey, there are quite a few Florida people on here. Cool! I live up in Jacksonville. I know all about the summer heat and being pregnant. Had three of my kids in August. So I was Big in the middle of summer three times. whee
I luckily don't have any friends hooked on drugs. That has to be hard watching something like that change and consume a friend. I do have a relative that got hooked on painkillers. She stole some things out of my house to give to the guy that was supplying her. Her mother put her in treatment. She is now pregnant and they are giving her low doses og the same drug. Cause if she quits cold turkey, it could cause her to loose the baby. I hope that the baby is ok when it is born. And I hope that for the child's sake she gets her act together.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:13 pm
There really are a lot of Florida people here! I wish I still lived in Florida (it's too cold up here! xp ). I was born in a small town outside of Panama City, FL.
And about drug-addicted friends, I have some. It is bad. While in high school a few of my friends got hooked on club drugs (as they were CONSTANTLY going to raves over in New Orleans). It was pretty bad for them for a while. One resorted to becoming a stripper to make ends meet and to keep up her party habit at one point in time. Luckily, though, almost all of them have finally quit all drugs nowadays.
I always hated drugs and drinking, so I was always the 'odd-person-out' in my circle of friends... always the designated driver, always the 'crash house' (aka: a place to sleep when my friends couldn't - or didn't want to - make it home). It was irritating to me a lot of the time, but I'd rather know they were safe with me around than to ignore them and them possibly get hurt or die.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:37 pm
wow i wasted my time reading through that topic... i don't know wat to say that is allowed so i'll leave it at, they are poopy heads xd xd xd lil mix of old school talk blaugh
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:38 pm
Same here Loki. Did they ever try to tell you how boring you are because you don't "party?" I can have fun being myself, thank you very much and do not need chemicals polluting my system to do so.
I dunno, I just always knew that those things were bad for me and weren't going to solve any of my problems. And I've always viewed drugs/alcohol as taking an easy way out when life gets hard (as many use that excuse for doing them in the first place) because it's easier to pretend things don't exist and to not deal with them. All the friends I know who got into drugs ended up so much worse off and their lives are a wreck. They have a problem, even if they don't admit it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:50 pm
They picked on me at first for not 'partying' with them, but after a while they gave up on trying to convince me to join them. I tried to take all their jibes with a grain of salt.
I too believe that drugs and drinking are 'easy ways out' though they don't really get you 'out.' I perfer being coherent and in control of myself at all times, thank you very much! 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:56 pm
Oh dear god, something just got really messed up there. eek
Let's try this again (but the short version):
I feel the same way: life is a lot more fun while being in control of yourself and being able to make intelligent decisions.
I didn't luck out with my friends however and ended up having to cut ties with them when they refused to respect my choice not to "party." People who do not respect your wishes are not friends, I wish more teens would understand that.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:09 pm
I thought drinking and drugs were so stupid. Then when I was 19 and depressed I started drinking. Let me say that was 3 years of my life WASTED! (no pun intended sweatdrop ) Not only did I repeatedly drop out of college I messed up relationships and friendships that I can never recover. I've been sober for 2 yrs this upcoming October and I have to say it is the best present I ever gave myself! Those years are a hazy fog, a waste. I feel like I just woke up from a bad dream to my real life. I"m so happy now. I will never drink again. Noone I have ever met has had anything good come of drinking and drugs.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:44 pm
I will never do drugs or drink. I have a few friends who like to try it, and one who takes it because she's "depressed" and she calls it "her way to escape from it", but it's a load of s**t, really. No one needs alcohol (which is a depressant, Holly!) to make themselves feel better. Yes, I get called a loser by a few of them, but I don't care. They're the losers in the end.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:44 pm
*huggles Chyra*
heart That is indeed the best present you could give yourself.
I've always been wary of drugs and alcohol; my father is an alcoholic so I choose not to drink very often or very much for fear that it will get out of control and that I'll be one too.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:11 pm
LadyElla64 I will never do drugs or drink. I have a few friends who like to try it, and one who takes it because she's "depressed" and she calls it "her way to escape from it", but it's a load of s**t, really. No one needs alcohol (which is a depressant, Holly!) to make themselves feel better. Yes, I get called a loser by a few of them, but I don't care. They're the losers in the end. I'm sorry, but thats kind of rude. Especially seeing as we have a recovering alcoholic here. Two actually. I drank because I was depressed. I drank because for that short period of time I didn't hurt so bad. I felt very lonely after my parents moved and D's father wasn't the biggest help. So, I started drinking more. It is a way to escape. Its wrong, but it happens. Sad to say, but the reason I quit my weekends of drinking till I was numb because I found out I was pregnant. I'm glad I had my son because it woke me up to what I was doing to myself. I don't know that just kind of hurt because you don't undrestand what its like to be that loser you're talking about. Its not right for her or any of us to do this, but you're not really helping either.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:20 pm
Glitter Girl LadyElla64 I will never do drugs or drink. I have a few friends who like to try it, and one who takes it because she's "depressed" and she calls it "her way to escape from it", but it's a load of s**t, really. No one needs alcohol (which is a depressant, Holly!) to make themselves feel better. Yes, I get called a loser by a few of them, but I don't care. They're the losers in the end. I'm sorry, but thats kind of rude. Especially seeing as we have a recovering alcoholic here. Two actually. I drank because I was depressed. I drank because for that short period of time I didn't hurt so bad. I felt very lonely after my parents moved and D's father wasn't the biggest help. So, I started drinking more. It is a way to escape. Its wrong, but it happens. Sad to say, but the reason I quit my weekends of drinking till I was numb because I found out I was pregnant. I'm glad I had my son because it woke me up to what I was doing to myself. I don't know that just kind of hurt because you don't undrestand what its like to be that loser you're talking about. Its not right for her or any of us to do this, but you're not really helping either. You're right--I wouldn't know what it's like. Sorry if I offended you.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:54 pm
Its okay. I can get kind of emotional sometimes. Its just something that took me a lot to come to terms with. Luckily for me I'm dating a guy who doesn't like to drink. blaugh
That and the reason I won't go near the stuff for the most part is my son. I don't want him to see me like that. Its not fair for a child to see their parent 3 sheets to the wind and I don't want to be that kind of parent.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:16 pm
Glitter Girl Its okay. I can get kind of emotional sometimes. Its just something that took me a lot to come to terms with. Luckily for me I'm dating a guy who doesn't like to drink. blaugh That and the reason I won't go near the stuff for the most part is my son. I don't want him to see me like that. Its not fair for a child to see their parent 3 sheets to the wind and I don't want to be that kind of parent. I went thru my party girl stage in my early twenties and I drank a lot. I worked in a bar so it was easy to come by. I quit when I found out I was pregnant and I don't drink anymore. My daughter's dad left me when he found out I was pregnant and married another girl when I was six months. He didn't tell her about me and I had let him go cause I knew he didn't love me. His wife found out after my daughter was born. My daughter's father has still never seen her in person. He and I have worked out our differences though and I know that he is sorry for what happened between us. I am now married and have three more kid's with my husband. They are all boys. I joke now that it was a good thing that I got my girl somewhere else. Cause my husband does not know how to make a girl. I am glad you also found someone who sounds like a good guy! smile
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:34 pm
I had to deal with an alcoholic drug addicted husband for 3 years, He was also a dealer. I saw every walk of life come through our door, addicts so desperate they'd sell their soul if they could. I was naive and unprepared for that life, and was so glad when I got away from it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:19 pm
Popping in while I'm pulling my hair out. It took 20 minutes, but Logan has finally gotten to sleep on his own. He had SO much fun at his birthday party, he blew his candles out and everything! I have no clue where I'm going to put all these toys.
As for the drug thing, I've done a quite a lot, did some heavy partying. Probably wasn't the smartest thing, but I don't regret it. I'm not a person who has a lot of regrets, I just don't live by them. I learned a lot from it, it makes me who I am and I can honestly relate to those who have and I KNOW what to look for rather than guessing. But when I had my son, serious priorities had to change. Although, I think I had a lot of growing up to do.
I see a lot of people who (not the standard, I've just seen it with a few friends), they got married young, had kids, their marriage split and they pratically went through that partying they "missed." It wouldn't bother me so much if there wasn't kids. sad
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