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A CROWD OF ONE.
“Come on.. Don’t be a wimp… you just take a drag like on a regular cigarette only you hold the smoke in.. come its easy.. Don’t be a wuss.. All of the cool people are doing it.” I have had several friends who have fallen into the traps that are set by this mentality, and sad to say not all of them were children. When we affiliate ourselves with a specific circle of people who engage in certain questionable activities, we can more times than not, and usually do find ourselves alienated from the group when we refuse to tag along. This happens a lot when people get into the whole drug scene,you start hanging out with the wrong people and the next thing you know, you’ve got lines of cocaine being waved under your nose. I use to hang out with people that I thought were pretty cool, we’d play music and drink beer and pretty much, a good time was had by everyone. That is until someone had invited the Cocaine guy to one of the music party’s.. I was the only person who refused it, And mere weeks later I was the first person in the circle to get pushed away because I was the only sober one in the crowd. They wouldn’t talk around me, they wouldn’t play music with me anymore, and I was no longer part of the “In crowd” Until they needed to borrow money.. But that’s a different animal I suppose. By 1990 most of them had moved away and the ones that remained have developed some rather serious health issues as a result of their drug abuse, all except those of us who were smart enough not to do it in the first place.. The one thing that sticks out for me? it’s a peer pressure thing, the group mentality.. Everybody does it.. If you don’t, your not cool.. Bullshit.. Falling into the pits of drug and alcohol abuse just because everyone in your circle is doing it is not cool.. Its moronic. For kids it can be rough, the peer pressure can be about a lot of things ranging from drugs and smoking, to having sex way too early in their lives.. For adults, giving way to peer pressure is unforgivable, simply because we are old enough to Know better. The lesson should have already been learnt by now. Just because a hundred or a thousand different people choose to throw their lives away on the abuse and pursuit of drugs and alcohol, no matter how big or small the number, That doesn’t make it right. but I suppose its just because some of us have enough sense to know that its better to be a shepherd, rather than a member of the flock.. Or maybe that only makes sense to me..
STREAM CURRENTS
Well everybody’s favorite Teenager Trisha has been a busy girl, she now has a total of three blogs in all and I think that you should all stop by and say hello to this talented young miss.. The blog titles are as follows: “My Life, My Story’s, Poems By Trisha and Stupid Little Pictures and jokes.” Stop by and tell Trisha Hello, and be nice!!
Well Kids Its official everybody’s favorite Crumudgeon Flea, has finally taken over as new acting Manager of the Darkside Tavern, I however will still be the owner, as well as host of the Saturday Roundtable sessions, if you would like to submit a true account of something unexplainable that happened to you, you can either submit your tale through private message on this blog or the bar and Grill blog, roundtable sessions will occur every Saturday night pending availability.
Well the big news for me on the Stream this week is the return of a Blogstream original, the author of one of my all time favorite blogs here on the Stream, it was called “Pure Cynicism” and It was all of that and a bag of chips with change. I welcome my friend back whole heartedly with open arms welcome back Tio.. You were missed brother.
New Blog Shout outs!!
Of course I have to do the new blogger Shout outs but I will have to do them on the fly because I haven’t really been paying a lot of attention to the comings and goings.. So anyways, here goes, well first of all You know I gotta give it up to my Bud Tio, because technically it is a new blog, so the first shoutout goes to the Blog Tio’s Thoughts, never mind about the writing.. Its top notch just like it was before, and if you read the blog you will find that Tio is one of a kind and original to the bone..
The second shout out goes to a blog called ummmm… are you ready?? ‘Stuttering Sally Speaks.. I don’t know how to explain it folks but, well, you just have to go read it for yourself to understand, Running with scissors as thrill seeking… oh my.. See you next time little ones.. Enjoy your weekend.
See you around the Stream! Scratch.
