By Brady James
The effects of using meth, or any kind of drug, can change the course of your life forever. In using meth, as I have seen firsthand, you lose your sense of self, you're no longer you. It will make life so much harder to live, you want to give up, but you realize that if you do... no more drugs, no more “fun”. The drug not only takes over you, but it even takes over your family, and rips it into tiny shreds, shreds that cannot be pieced back together. The effects of meth on your body, your soul, and your family, may never, and almost never, be corrected.
The risks you take upon yourself by using meth, will overcome you! In time you will begin to change, change in just about every way possible. At first it's slow, you lose a little weight here and there, but then it all comes down. Your skin, it begins to shrivel up, and get cold and rough. You mood changes so drastically that people hate to be around you, and try to think of excuses to get away. Then you are alone! The only thing you will have left in your life... will be you, and sometimes... that just isn't enough. Your life will change from good to bad the moment you put that pipe to your lips. You lose the respect of friends, family, and even yourself! Everything you had ever achieved... disappears.
The risks you take upon yourself may seem pretty harsh, but the effect it has on your family: is ten times worse. I myself, know of five families who have gone through this mess. And let me tell you, nothing hurts worse than having your parents chose meth over you... nothing! My parents used to argue in front of me, and when they would get high it got worse, I was scared to come home, or be home. You never know what might happen, who may hit who, or even, if one might come out alive. Try, for one second, try living in constant fear, in constant apprehension... hard isn't it? Try waiting day after day after day, for things to get better, and see that day after day... it just gets worse and worse. Then one day, your kids are taken from you, and your drugged state... you almost don't care. You think, “Now I can do whatever I want, nobody to care for now.” You don't take into consideration how badly you are hurting the children by not caring. But as they drive away, the parent inside you breaks out, and you realize what just happened, and all you can do is cry in you own pity... nobody, will be there for you. It doesn't even have to be your immediate family... you will most likely lose everyone.
On a final note, I hope that they will see what they are doing, see who they are hurting. Not everyone is going to be forgiving; by the time they realize what they have done, everyone is gone. So now, they have to choose. What do they really want? What do they want in their future? They have to do it now before they get in to deep. Choose. It's your life, do you think it's worth living?
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