Why do you have to be 21 to drink? We are considered adults at 18. We can serve our country at 18. We can smoke at 18. We can buy a house or car when we are 18. And we can have kids when we want. Everything we do can be done at 18 or younger expect for drinking. Most everyone drinks before they are 21. Why do we have to wait until we are 21 the legally drink? Does this make since to any one?
Imagine this: On normal a Friday noon, during lunch in school, girls are fighting for a Pepsi bottle, rolling on the floor, strangling each other for it. They are acting kind of strange.
It makes you wonder why they are fighting for that bottle.
Things you can do at age 18:
You can vote.
Men have to sign up for selective service.
You can go to war.
You can be selected to jury duty.
You can buy a riffle.
You can play the state lottery.
You can buy cigarettes.
So I feel like I've been gone for a while and there are a few things I need to share.
First to politics...
I don't know if any of you know or have ever heard of Brandon Cosby but he's an amazing man...look up his work...well
I’m not in high school any more (thank goodness), but I would like to examine this subject seeing as it’s that time of year again.
Alcohol is involved in about 40% of all fatal car accidents. Anyone who has their driver's license or at least took driving school should know this, so why so many people still drinking and driving?
One phone call. One deathley phone. literaly. One cry. A cry i shall never ever forget. He was walking to visit his brothers grave. He use to walk everywhere. I think he just enjoyed the fresh air. He had crossed that highway many times before. He had known those streets by the back of his hand. Past tense. It's all past tense. I guess the driver didn't see him. He was on the median.
More than 1,700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year—about 4.65 a day—as a result of alcohol-related injuries
(http://www.marininstitute.org/Youth/alcohol_youth.htm)
This is the first of a few blogs that I would like to do on alcohol, especially on my experiences with the vile drink and how it has affected both my loved ones and I.
