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Editor’s Box By Carolyn Grindrod [email protected] Editor-in-Chief |
Being drunk is not funny; it is just stupid
Alcohol. Booze. Bevvy. Piss. Juice. Sauce. Whatever you call it, it disgusts me, and I’m about ready to swear it off completely. FOREVER.
I was eight years old when I had my first taste of alcohol in a small restaurant in Germany. It was a beer, and I remember thinking it was the worse thing I had ever tasted in my life. It wasn’t until I was in college that I actually picked up a beer again. And I still thought it tasted like piss.When I lived in Europe, I never had to deal with the pressures and social taboos of alcohol. The responsibility of drinking is held in a different regard there than it is here; it’s okay for minors to get alcohol there legally. I was raised in an environment where there wasn’t anything wrong with a beer or glass of wine at dinner.
However, I’ve noticed that people in the States take drinking to the extreme. I can tell you, nothing annoys me more than someone saying, “Come to so-and-so’s place. We’re gonna get DRUNK!” Just hearing that makes me cringe.The mentality of those kinds of people scares me. Why would you want to lose all of your motor skills and ability to comprehend? Why put yourself in a situation where you have no control over yourself?
No thanks, I much rather just sit at home watching cartoons.I’ve got several friends who drink way too much, and I’ve watched what it does to them. One of my friends falls asleep every night clutching an empty bottle of wine. I’ve noticed how unhappy that person must be with life. But can life really be that horrible that you have to drown the pain out with booze?
I have another friend who is in complete denial. My friend, like a lot of college students, goes out and parties a lot with people, but he doesn’t even realize what the effects of alcohol will do to his body.My aunt, of all people, will tell you what effects alcoholism has on your life. Her first husband was an alcoholic, and shortly after they were married, they had my cousin Rick. My uncle used to drink every night, getting angrier as he did, and would throw the empty beer cans at my baby cousin. My poor aunt had to get out of that relationship, and now my cousin doesn’t even know his father.
I hate seeing people act that way. I never want to become that. I never want to see anyone I love or care for become that. And it’s not just the social aspects and relationships that are destroyed because of alcohol; your body is being destroyed.Alcohol damages your liver and your pancreas. It also destroys brain cells.
Being drunk is not funny; it’s stupid.