This is how i am.
If you're easily offended be ware, This could get bitchy, but all from my heart with love and honesty.
So i feel like i should say something. I want to voice my opinion and i want you to listen as i always listen to yours. (im not just talking to one specfic person here just to clear that up.) It's pretty widely known that im against drinking and drugs. Yeah, i myself have drank a couple times in the past, i know this and don't deny it. But im starting over. I didnt like the person i was there for that minute, getting drunk to escape relaity for a bit, hey what the hell is wrong with my reality anyway? life's pretty damn good believe it or not. Get over your "hard" life and realize there are SO many people out there with so many bigger things to deal with such as...oh i dont know....POVERTY, terrible living conditions, not nearly the opportunities or blessings we have by living in novi and being in high school. No matter how much you bitch and complain about how you "had to spend 20 bucks for gas today" you're still WAY privledged. So basically, your life doesnt suck. Everyone has issues with their life, that comes with out saying, but get over yourself and realize its not an excuse to go get high or get drunk. You DONT need to escape from reality, quit taking the easy way out.
My best friend once told me " i kinda wish we were teenagers in the 50's sometimes, because people were more innocent back then and life was just so much simplier." Can you see why i love her to death? even if you cant I CAN and that's all that matters. Anyway, I guess all this anger in this post in fueled from dissappointment. I've always been taught "judge people by their actions, not by their looks or uncontrolable traits." I live by this one. I judge people by their actions and life choices. I love my friends. But from when i became close with some of you last year or a little before this time last year, you were completely different people with completely differnt morals. Yes I've slipped on mine a bit with drinking a couple times. but guess what im back. I DO think drinking in high school is wrong and i DO think doing drugs is wrong and is very dissapointing. You're more than that. basically i miss the kids i met last year. The ones who when ever we hung out drinking, or talking about drinking experience, wernt involved. I really dont like how some people have changed so much and thrown a lot of their morals out the window. This really dissapoints me, and no im not judging you for the wrong reasons, im judging you by your ACTIONS and how you make yourself come off.
I have faith in God, and by being a Christ follower, i live by sharing the word of christ through my actions. Jesus didnt sit back and watch things happen, he preached good to all and stood up for what he believed in. The word of God. I know it doesnt specifially say in the bible "dont smoke weed or get drunk all the time" but you know whats right and wrong, at least i do, and if you dont, i pray for you. I pray for you anyway because you're my friends and i care and want God to guide you like he is me.
Im not writting this to brag about how i think im living my life so "well" or that i think im better than you or anything because i dont. I have many sins of my own and deal with them myself. Im writting this because i care about you and want you to know my feelings on the issue.
If you dont think the actual act of drinking or smoking weed is bad, think about the other things that you're doing in the process. 1. lieing to your parents, its disrespecting them. They give everything for us and you're lieing to their face. 2. Disrespecting your morals, (if you in fact have them, still have them, or ever had them). 3. You're fitting into just another statistic, teens who abuse drugs in high school, that ones a winner to put on the college application for sure. 4. if you're on student council you're living a lie because part of the contract with that is resisting drugs and alcohol. I know you think its not a big deal but i do. I love you guys and i miss hanging out with you when you're sober and not talking about the next time you're going to get drunk or high, or your "fun stories" from the last time you did.
I value our friendship, but it seems like when we hang out there's nothing left to talk about or relate to anymore because i dont spoke pot or drink. So to wrap this rediculously long thing up (if you're even still reading at this point) im really dissapointing in you, all of you, including myself. I've made the choice to change, and not fit into that statistic. I dont care what everyone else is doing. I love who i am and dont need to "Experiment" to feel like i havnt missed out on anything and experienced life. Im a Christ follower, so now i pray for you.
Your friend always and forever
Adrienne Ragsdale
So i feel like i should say something. I want to voice my opinion and i want you to listen as i always listen to yours. (im not just talking to one specfic person here just to clear that up.) It's pretty widely known that im against drinking and drugs. Yeah, i myself have drank a couple times in the past, i know this and don't deny it. But im starting over. I didnt like the person i was there for that minute, getting drunk to escape relaity for a bit, hey what the hell is wrong with my reality anyway? life's pretty damn good believe it or not. Get over your "hard" life and realize there are SO many people out there with so many bigger things to deal with such as...oh i dont know....POVERTY, terrible living conditions, not nearly the opportunities or blessings we have by living in novi and being in high school. No matter how much you bitch and complain about how you "had to spend 20 bucks for gas today" you're still WAY privledged. So basically, your life doesnt suck. Everyone has issues with their life, that comes with out saying, but get over yourself and realize its not an excuse to go get high or get drunk. You DONT need to escape from reality, quit taking the easy way out.
My best friend once told me " i kinda wish we were teenagers in the 50's sometimes, because people were more innocent back then and life was just so much simplier." Can you see why i love her to death? even if you cant I CAN and that's all that matters. Anyway, I guess all this anger in this post in fueled from dissappointment. I've always been taught "judge people by their actions, not by their looks or uncontrolable traits." I live by this one. I judge people by their actions and life choices. I love my friends. But from when i became close with some of you last year or a little before this time last year, you were completely different people with completely differnt morals. Yes I've slipped on mine a bit with drinking a couple times. but guess what im back. I DO think drinking in high school is wrong and i DO think doing drugs is wrong and is very dissapointing. You're more than that. basically i miss the kids i met last year. The ones who when ever we hung out drinking, or talking about drinking experience, wernt involved. I really dont like how some people have changed so much and thrown a lot of their morals out the window. This really dissapoints me, and no im not judging you for the wrong reasons, im judging you by your ACTIONS and how you make yourself come off.
I have faith in God, and by being a Christ follower, i live by sharing the word of christ through my actions. Jesus didnt sit back and watch things happen, he preached good to all and stood up for what he believed in. The word of God. I know it doesnt specifially say in the bible "dont smoke weed or get drunk all the time" but you know whats right and wrong, at least i do, and if you dont, i pray for you. I pray for you anyway because you're my friends and i care and want God to guide you like he is me.
Im not writting this to brag about how i think im living my life so "well" or that i think im better than you or anything because i dont. I have many sins of my own and deal with them myself. Im writting this because i care about you and want you to know my feelings on the issue.
If you dont think the actual act of drinking or smoking weed is bad, think about the other things that you're doing in the process. 1. lieing to your parents, its disrespecting them. They give everything for us and you're lieing to their face. 2. Disrespecting your morals, (if you in fact have them, still have them, or ever had them). 3. You're fitting into just another statistic, teens who abuse drugs in high school, that ones a winner to put on the college application for sure. 4. if you're on student council you're living a lie because part of the contract with that is resisting drugs and alcohol. I know you think its not a big deal but i do. I love you guys and i miss hanging out with you when you're sober and not talking about the next time you're going to get drunk or high, or your "fun stories" from the last time you did.
I value our friendship, but it seems like when we hang out there's nothing left to talk about or relate to anymore because i dont spoke pot or drink. So to wrap this rediculously long thing up (if you're even still reading at this point) im really dissapointing in you, all of you, including myself. I've made the choice to change, and not fit into that statistic. I dont care what everyone else is doing. I love who i am and dont need to "Experiment" to feel like i havnt missed out on anything and experienced life. Im a Christ follower, so now i pray for you.
Your friend always and forever
Adrienne Ragsdale