University Experiences Part II

University Experiences Part II

My time at the university, since deciding to return after ten years of being out, has been one irritating moment after another. I’m 32 years old and I didn’t think that the age gap was going to be such an extensive divide between the other students and me, but I don’t seem to be on the same page with anyone. Granted, most of them are teenagers or in their early twenties, but can ten years really make such a big difference? I have an almost endless supply of events I hope to write about but I don’t know when I will get the time to write about them. In many ways, I have no idea where to start.

Well, for the second part of my blog posts, entitled “University Experiences”, I will write about the topic of drugs and alcohol. Now, if you have been reading my blog, you can probably very easily deduce that I’m a spiritual person. I take my spiritual life very seriously and try to be faithful to live out what I believe. I’m not someone that preaches one thing and does another. That said, I am human after all and I have the same weaknesses as any other human being might have. Though others might not consider these things to be weaknesses and I would like to believe that my God helps me and keeps me on the right path.

Many would scoff at me and mock me for having a spiritual belief of any kind. I don’t force my beliefs on anyone. People have the freedom to choose what they want and I’m not responsible for people that want nothing to do with spiritual topics. I believe that people are responsible to make their own decisions and each person will have nobody to blame but themselves if they find out they’re wrong. I myself, I am a logical minded person. I am very driven on what is logical, what makes sense, and I try to think everything through before making decisions. I’m not a rash or hasty person in any aspect of my life. Ultimately, by having spiritual beliefs, I have nothing to lose. If I die and I’m wrong, nothing happens. If there is nothing after this life, I have lost nothing when I die. However, if I am correct, then after I die I have everything to gain. If I go through life without believing and then I die, only to find out I was wrong, then I am the fool for not being wiser when I had the chance.

People constantly want to mock me for my beliefs and tell me that God doesn’t exist. Well, they are permitted to believe that, but if they are wrong they will wish they had made other choices but by that point it’s too late. I bring up the topic of spirituality before I delve into the topic of alcohol is because most people assume that I don’t drink for spiritual reasons. It is true that my spiritual beliefs are against such things but that is not my sole reason. I hadn’t ever drank alcohol when I was younger and I didn’t drink when I became of legal age either. Then, later in my life, when I started to become interested in spiritual things, my beliefs just happened to coincide with my desire to remain 100% completely sober and drug free. Even if I were not a spiritual person now, I still don’t think I would drink. It has never appealed to me and I don’t believe that it ever will.

Among the main topics of ridicule from the other students has been the topic of drugs and especially that of alcohol. I constantly get mocked by the other students for having never done drugs or drank alcohol in my entire life. The only memory I have of ever tasting alcohol was when I was a child in a Catholic church and I sipped wine during communion. I’m no longer Catholic and I haven’t had any more than a few sips when I was a child. To this day I have never drank a beer or been drunk. I have never done drugs of any kind. In fact, I would be afraid of what would happen to me if I ever tried drugs. I have so many allergies to so many prescription medicines that I might die if I ever tried an illegal drug. Some people might say that I don’t try drugs because they are illegal and the Holy Bible of the Christian faith speaks of God commanding that His people obey all the laws of man unless they contradict God’s own laws. There are other verses in the Holy Scriptures that speak of drugs and avoiding them. It speaks of avoiding alcohol too, though many Christians today find other verses to try and justify drinking. Yet, even if drugs were legal, I know I would never try them. I don’t want to be under the influence of any foreign substance. I don’t want to lose control of my mind and body. I also don’t want to risk death, addiction, or even bad trips. I don’t want to be a slave to anything. I don’t want to be addicted to anything. I don’t want to waste my hard earned money on such foolishness either. I could go on and on and make an extensive list of reasons not to do it. Yet, I am writing this post primarily about alcohol, so I should get back on topic.

So when other students invite me out to drink I always refuse. They mock me and ridicule me for being an idiot and stupid for not going to get drunk with them. I tell them of a long list of reasons why I don’t drink and they still think I’m an idiot for not drinking.

So I’m taking this moment to ponder on the topic of drinking or any other drug consumption. First of all, drugs and alcohol have never appealed to me. I’ve never desired to try them. I don’t feel tempted by them. A million people could offer them to me all day long, for free, and I wouldn’t even be slightly tempted to try them. It’s not my thing. It never has been. Secondly, I don’t want to get killed before God calls me away. Trying to drive or function under the influence of a drug is almost impossible, it is certainly difficult. Thirdly, people get raped, pranked, taken advantage of, hurt, beaten up, knocked down, run over, robbed, or mugged when drunk and have no idea anything even happened to them until they sober up.

Why would I want to allow those things to happen to me? Who in their right mind finds something like this desirable? Do people really enjoy waking up and vomiting their guts up in the toilet? Do people really enjoy waking up next to a total stranger that they had sex with the night before? Do people really enjoy discovering that they contracted an STD and not even know how, where, or with whom it happened? Do people really enjoy finding that they were taken advantage of, cheated, or robbed while they were drunk? Do people enjoy waking up to find cuts and bruises all over their body and not know where they came from? Do people enjoy getting into car accidents, or getting arrested, or getting into fist fights while they were drunk? Do people enjoy knowing they had sexual relations with someone that is dirty or unattractive or even a member of the same sex if the person is heterosexual?

Yet, when I bring those things up with the students inviting me to drink with them, they always say, “Yeah, but that’s the fun of it!” Really? Those things are fun? I ask them why they think such things are fun and they are unable to give an answer that I consider to be logical or adequate in anyway.

So without further delay, I present to you a number of videos I found on YouTube. None of these videos are my own. I found all of them randomly. These videos are perfect examples of why I have no desire to drink or do drugs. If people read this post and watch those videos and still think I’m a fool for not wanting to go get drunk with them, then they need to reevaluate who’s truly the fool.

In conclusion, it is my personal opinion that people who get drunk are fools. Many people may be angry with my statement or think I am wrong. Well, just as I am entitled to my opinion, other people are entitled to theirs. If you disagree with me, I won’t argue with you or try to convince you that you are wrong. What you do with your own life is your own prerogative. I won’t force my opinions or beliefs on anyone else. I simply stated my opinion here and if you agree great and if you disagree great.

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