Values by which a person lives tehir life
I can’t exactly remember when the values by which I live my life were instilled in my head; I guess it’s one of those things that develop as we grow. I believe that in was somewhere in the middle of my sophomore year that I took a true stand and vow to live my life by a group of values I had set for myself. Like many other students in high school, I too experimented with alcohol, mostly due to peer pressure, which I never believed existed until today. I never experimented with any type of drug or cigarette. I found cigarettes to be completely disgusting and as for drugs, I was a cheerleader and we were randomly selected for drug testing so that was a big motivator against it. Even if it wasn’t for cheerleading, I don’t think I ever seriously considered drugs just because of what I knew about them and their effects on people. As for drinking, as a freshman it wasn’t something I did on a regular basis but at least once a month I found myself going out with my friends and drinking with the “older” people. At the time I didn’t find it to be peer pressure but looking back I defiantly know that it was. Being young, impressionable, and not bad looking it was easy for the cute senior boys to talk me into dri
nking. Luckily I wasn’t naive to the point of doing anything extremely stupid such as sleeping with any of them, but falling into the pressure of drinking was enough to convince me that they were bad news. Now I stand alone with my beliefs, no one there to stand beside me anymore. All my friends continue to go out, with the exception of maybe one or two, and once in a while I join them to maybe drive, in fear that one of them may drive intoxicated. I know that this period in my life is a test God is putting me through, to see whether I can stand alone, and I know I will not fail him or even more myself. I know I have too much going for me to be distracted by the wrong things in life. Now I am glad to know that it was just a phase and that I have grown into my own person and am making decisions based on what I believe in and not what others have do. Though many of my beliefs such as not drinking or doing drugs and waiting until marriage to have sex are all bible based, I believe that even if I wasn’t a strong Christian I would still choose to follow those rules. The way I look at it is that people only drink because there is nothing else to do and I personally find that pathetic. The fact that they most consume their bodies with so many impurities simply in order to enjoy themselves is a sad concept to accept. And as
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