The Vicious Cycle

My experience with alcohol is that alcohol is everywhere. Wherever I go, alcohol is there. I see alcohol at the store, family member’s houses, friend’s houses and my house. It’s every where. My parents know I drink, but they only know that I drink a little bit and not very often.

When you go to parties, there is alcohol. You go to a restaurant, there is alcohol. It’s everywhere and available to anyone. It’s the same routine every Friday: get your pay check, call your friends, make a carne asada, drink beer, and have a good time Saturday is go to work, get out, and call your friend, go to a party, and drink some more.

A lot of young people are having drinking problems at a young age. They’re becoming alcoholics. Some of the teens I know go to school just to plan their weekend with their friends. Others just wait for Friday to come so they can go out and party and drink because they see everybody else doing it and they think it’s cool. They think it will make them cooler if they drink like everyone else.

Drinking causes depression and depression causes drinking problems. When someone is drinking, one can hurt or kill oneself or others, and when you are depressed you can do the same thing. When you are drunk, you can be happy or sometimes sad and start crying for the problems that you are having in your life and sometimes you commit suicide. Or if you are a happy drunk, you think the world is yours. Then, you may drive drunk and you can kill yourself or others.

I don’t want to be addicted, but its hard not to because you go to a place were everybody is drinking and if you don’t, they make fun of you. They are going to say you are gay and things like that and if you leave, the next day the insults get worse. I can control my alcohol, though, so I can be sober by the time I leave and take everybody home.

Drinking is a vicious cycle. It can lead you to a lot of bad things. First is death. Also, it can lead you to other problems like losing your family, job, friends and everyone you care about. It can also lead you to spending the rest of your life in jail because you can get stopped by a police officer and get charged with a DUI or you can drink and drive and kill someone and go to jail for murder and DUI. All of these things can lead to depression and suicide and that’s how it becomes a vicious cycle.