Drugs

I just have to say I am thankful I am not a teen these days, and I'm only 22. My mom is a high school counselor at Osage Beach and said that if there was a city in Missouri that had "a lot to do" that would be it but the kids say there is "nothing to do except do drugs and drink" which is the way my hometown was. Population 485, lots of drinking and drug usage went on but that was all by choice. I did drink in HS, I only got WASTED twice in HS, my first time 3 beers = my throwing up on my bathroom floor. Second time was the only weekend my mom left me home alone and I went out and drank hardcore which resulted in me passing out by 9 on the bathroom floor at a party, being driven home and throwing up on myself than losing my virgnity to the guy who drove me home. I didn't drink heavily for a while after that and still try not to. Almost all of my friends did drugs when I was in HS. My boyfriend would smoke meth with one of my best friends (I didn't know the meth part) and everyone I knew who didn't hang out with their parents on the weekends smoked pot except my best friend and me. It wasn't like I never got asked to smoke pot, I just never wanted to and I still don't. So when Blake's mom tries to give me the reasons they figured out in counseling that Taylor smokes I just wanted to shake her. I am sure that drugs now are worse than they were when I was in HS but even the "pot heads" functioned well and went to school regularly. Taylor said that when his brother and sister went off to college he was really lonely and all his friends did drugs so he joined them. Donna than said that Taylor has a lot of friends from broken homes and when their parents divorced it led them to doing drugs... BULLSHIT!! My parents were divorced and honestly I think that a divorce at 16 is worse than at 6. I saw a "happy family" for a long time before it just split apart and I didn't know why. I didn't do drugs than! Almost all of my friends did drugs and I still told them no. My brother left for college the same summer my dad moved out. It went from a 4 person house to a 2 person house in a matter of weeks and I didn't do drugs. So all of those seem like piss poor excuses for being selfish.