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Angel Senior Member
since 1999-07-02
Posts 551Pennsylvania 
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Ramblings... I refuse to go down in that manner. I will not be yet another victim of drugs or alchohol like so many young people before me. I have the priveledge to live in the greatest country in the world, the United States of America. I have things people in other countries will never see: a stereo, a computer, even a house, just to name a few. I understand I have been very blessed, but I have many questions about the monsters of society we have at least partially brought upon ourselves. I may be fifteen, but don't fifteen year olds have a right to speech too? If the United States is the most technilogically advanced country in the world, why are so many children faced with illiteracy while children from other, less developed countries, would surely be considered geniuses by our standards? We are a country based on life, liberty and justice for all, yet we allow mothers to legally take their own baby's life. It's giving them the right to commit murder. Why are people of a differet color, background, or even gender discriminated against? Is that justified as well? What about the thousands of innocent children each day being abused by mothers and fathers who just don't care anymore? Do these angels lose their right to a full, healthy life just like those unborn babies? In schools all over the world 2 million tiny children line up each and every day around lunchtime in the nurse's office with outstretched little hands awaiting a drug we call Ritalin. Ritalin is a Schedule II drug, the same group as Morphine and Cocaine, two highly addictive drugs. The drug takes away their imagination and ability to think creatively. Yet all the teachers and parents are worried about is that it "shuts them up". How many quiet six year olds do you know? If they were quiet, would they even be normal six year olds? In essense, we are killing some of the greatest minds of the fast approaching 21st century with a little yellow drug, and for what, so they won't give us a headache? The peer pressure of these same schools is almost unbearable. How are are teenagers supposed to put up with the pressure of smoking drinking and doing drugs? I tell myself I have too much to live for and they will only kill me slowly, but how am I supposed to tell people around me that. It's not easy by any stretch of the imagination, believe me. I see far too many of my friends killing themselves each day right in front of my eyes. I must be stronger than them, and strive towards my goals before I too am pulled into the shadows. I must continue to live for all the fifteen year old girls that have gone before me. The weight of their souls now rests upon my shoulders...and who says being a teenager was easy? ~Susie~ |
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Marilyn Member Elite
since 1999-09-26
Posts 2621Ontario, Canada |
I don't think anyone said being a teenager was easy. I would not want to go back and live those years all over again. I guess i was different when i was young because peer pressure didn't bother me so very much. I was who I was and no one was going to talk me into anything. if they didn't like me because of that, well, their loss. The pressures of drugs and sex and countless other things were there when I was a teen. I did not do anything i did not want to do. I have never in my life touched drugs and I was a virgin until I was 21 years old. I did and stil do smoke and I REALLY hate myself for ever starting. The key, I guess, is knowing who you are and standing behind that. Knowing your goals and striving to reach them. Having activities that are important to you and keeping busy in your life. I am not saying my adolecents was peaceful by any means but I servived and so shall you. Chin up and look toward your future.  |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
If you want my honest opinion, (which you're stuck with, because I refuse to give a dishonest one...) The root of many if not all of our problems in this country lies in a developed laziness. After becoming a major power in the world, and developing so many technological "aids," we have become a complacent society dependant upon our devices and position in the world to get us along. I am in no way saying that this extends to every person, but I think follows as a general rule. My op that's all. "O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?" Dante Alighieri |
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Dusk Treader
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since 1999-06-18
Posts 1187St. Paul, MN |
Well, in the opinion of this sixteen year old boy this is a well written piece with many good questions to ask of our corrupt society... I didn't know much of Ritalin, what a horrible thing to do to the leaders of tomorrow... Being a Teenager surely isn't easy, but I'm going to make it, and I'm guessing you will too, you seem to be a strong one, good luck to you In flames I shall not be consumed, but reborn. -- Abrahm Simons |
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Angel Senior Member
since 1999-07-02
Posts 551Pennsylvania |
Thanks for your comments everyone . Marilyn, i know what you're say, I have never touched, drugs, not even a cigarette (although with asthma I don't know how much I could take anyway ). Christopher, I completely agree with your opinion, and unfortunately am realizing the truth behind it more and more with each day  . It's so frustrating sometimes!!!. Dusk Treader, the only reason I found out about Ritalin was because my English teacher assigned it as the topic of my graduation project..EEK! Considering I have 3 cousins taking the drug what I found out wasn't good news at all. Good luck to you too! I think I will make it as well . Thanks again everyone~Susie~ |
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