ranting.
Please.
I am completely for people deciding on their own what to do with their lives and their bodies. The choices I make are my own.
The conciquences are mine as well.
I also am mature enough to know that my choices will ultimately affect others.
If my choices are hurting people, then they are no longer just my decisions.
I understand this.
I understand people need interventions.
But I will not allow someone to talk down on me based on personal decisions that have nothing to do with them. What I consume is non of your concern. Thanks for feeling the need to tell me how cool you are and how much of a loser I am. But I'm happy and you seem to be a bit pissed off all the time. If telling people what to do with their lives puts you at some peace of mind, then you have problems.
Not to mention that negitive re-enforcement hardly ever works. I don't see where beating kids up and threats are going to get you. Other than arrested and hated. And don't take fear as a sign of respect. Fear is usually a sign of dislike.
A movement is not made by making enemies. A movement is made by creating alliances and understanding that it might just not be for everyone. Being educated about what you stand for and being able to debate, not lecture. Even more so when you are discussing a personal choice and not a moral or ethical issue.
There is a right or wrong to many things; murder, rape, abuse and so forth.
There is not a right or wrong when it comes to many things as well; sexual preference, consumption of legal or illegal substances, religion, and your belief of issues of the social kind.
I am not saying that I disagree with being straightedge. If I did that would be like saying I disagree with people who are homosexuals. (Although they don't have a choice). Okay. It's like saying I disagree with people who are Catholic.
You can't. I don't. You make a choice, and I am all for it. I might or might not agree with your choice, or your views, but I respect you.
and respect is something this movement seems to be lacking. no for eachother. but for those of us who are not. the idea of being with us or against us will never get you far. many people respect the straightedge movement, and many see it as a joke. think about that. why would they? because kids get beat up for smoking a cig at a show? because some kid drinks beer with his friends? that surely is what something that seems so positive should be doing. people think of over worked out goons going about and beating up on lil kids.
respect.you have to give to get. you have to prove you are not what everyone assumes you are.
i will live my life. content and happy with who i am. i drink. i smoke cigars. and i've smoked cigs. but that has never made me less of who i am. i take my life one day at a time. i attempt to be as positive as i can and let life be lived.
you should do the same.
but making someone else's life miserable because they are not one of you, is a caveman way of doing things.
I have no idea where this is going. But I am just sick and tired of what things have become. what kids are taking for granted and what people are getting away.
if you keep your body clean.
why not your mind?
why not your soul?
why not your heart?
they're all parts of who you are and you poison yourself is so many other ways.
i'm not saying i'm perfect. no one is. but i'm human and i am humane. that is more than most can say.
late night rants.
I am completely for people deciding on their own what to do with their lives and their bodies. The choices I make are my own.
The conciquences are mine as well.
I also am mature enough to know that my choices will ultimately affect others.
If my choices are hurting people, then they are no longer just my decisions.
I understand this.
I understand people need interventions.
But I will not allow someone to talk down on me based on personal decisions that have nothing to do with them. What I consume is non of your concern. Thanks for feeling the need to tell me how cool you are and how much of a loser I am. But I'm happy and you seem to be a bit pissed off all the time. If telling people what to do with their lives puts you at some peace of mind, then you have problems.
Not to mention that negitive re-enforcement hardly ever works. I don't see where beating kids up and threats are going to get you. Other than arrested and hated. And don't take fear as a sign of respect. Fear is usually a sign of dislike.
A movement is not made by making enemies. A movement is made by creating alliances and understanding that it might just not be for everyone. Being educated about what you stand for and being able to debate, not lecture. Even more so when you are discussing a personal choice and not a moral or ethical issue.
There is a right or wrong to many things; murder, rape, abuse and so forth.
There is not a right or wrong when it comes to many things as well; sexual preference, consumption of legal or illegal substances, religion, and your belief of issues of the social kind.
I am not saying that I disagree with being straightedge. If I did that would be like saying I disagree with people who are homosexuals. (Although they don't have a choice). Okay. It's like saying I disagree with people who are Catholic.
You can't. I don't. You make a choice, and I am all for it. I might or might not agree with your choice, or your views, but I respect you.
and respect is something this movement seems to be lacking. no for eachother. but for those of us who are not. the idea of being with us or against us will never get you far. many people respect the straightedge movement, and many see it as a joke. think about that. why would they? because kids get beat up for smoking a cig at a show? because some kid drinks beer with his friends? that surely is what something that seems so positive should be doing. people think of over worked out goons going about and beating up on lil kids.
respect.you have to give to get. you have to prove you are not what everyone assumes you are.
i will live my life. content and happy with who i am. i drink. i smoke cigars. and i've smoked cigs. but that has never made me less of who i am. i take my life one day at a time. i attempt to be as positive as i can and let life be lived.
you should do the same.
but making someone else's life miserable because they are not one of you, is a caveman way of doing things.
I have no idea where this is going. But I am just sick and tired of what things have become. what kids are taking for granted and what people are getting away.
if you keep your body clean.
why not your mind?
why not your soul?
why not your heart?
they're all parts of who you are and you poison yourself is so many other ways.
i'm not saying i'm perfect. no one is. but i'm human and i am humane. that is more than most can say.
late night rants.