Reality Check
by Teenagers these days are doing things that only appear in books. This is about the book that changed my life.
Have you ever read a book which resembles the life/ lifestyle you have? I love the novels Ellen Hopkins writes, especially her first novel, Crank, and another, Burned. Crank is the book that made me think of life and peer pressure and I realized that it is the situation I see many of my peers end up in today.
The school I go to is one of the largest in the east coast. We have over 4,000 students, half being my class. Freshman year, I remember there were always the kids who were bad and those who were always total goody goods. That started to change as the year progressed. The all A’s smarty goods were soon addicted to cocaine and speed. It kind of scared me when I read the book Crank how I seen many of my friends do the same. I know more than half of the kids in my class are regular drug-users and smokers, and ninety percent of them are sexually active. We are talking about fourteen to sixteen years old. I did not notice this until I read this book. How an innocent girl changes her life after making one mistake of giving in to peer pressure.
Peer pressure. That is one topic that is always seemed to be discussed but no one really knows how and what it does unless you were or are a victim to it. I will admit I am and I dealt with many years of it. Believe me I am speaking from “been there and got help to get out” situation. What people in my school do not see is they are ruining their lives slowly. I know girls who get an abortion every year and I know boys who become fathers to baby’s they will never even know. I see girls who “model” and are addicted to cocaine. Boys who like attention and drop acid. These days it isn’t just smoking pot or ecstasy; it is becoming to the point meth, crack, heroine, speed, and LSD are commonly used. I realized what has our generation become these days?
I look around in Myspace and find kids my age for the past few months to see if their schools are like that too. Really upsetting, schools across America are all like mine. What is the use of sex- ed and drug awareness when you are really introducing us to the topic of trying something new or breaking a rule?
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On January 21, 2009 at 5:15 am
This story reminds me of a Poem by 2Pac called “Life Like A Traffic Jam”, Just take it as a lesson I did some things I wish I could look back on and have made some changes and not done.
But its all over now and I have to live a different life, you have to do the same sweety. If people are going to judge you then f*ck’em do not even bother with them you got brains and you look good. So I would not even care about the way they look at you, your a person not a robot. Remember that Peace!