My Opinions

The opinions expressed here are mine and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of GeoCities, my wife or anyone else.

If you don't like what you read here, please remember the everyone is entitled to their opinion and these are just my opinions.

Beer

I cannot understand how someone can drink it. If you will be honest with yourself and go back to the FIRST beer that you drank, what was your reaction? To me it was nasty. But WHY do so many people drink it?
I once asked a friend about why they drank it. The answer was that it gets you drunk. "Do you LIKE the first beer?" I asked. They remarked that after a couple you couldn't taste the beer. Well, with this logic, let's say that pond water gets you drunker than beer, but you have to drink at least a gallon before you see any effects.

Again I ask, WHY does so many people drink beer?? I think the reason is MEDIA!!!!!! How many commercials show fine looking men and women playing around, having fun, all drinking beer. How many commercials on the radio beckon the listener to come down to the local pub/bar/club to party?!?! I'm SO tired of it!

I ask anyone that hasn't tasted beer to REMEMBER the taste of your first beer and ask yourself, am I drinking it because someone else says it's good or because I like it???

Smoking

This is another item that I cannot understand. It's funny that my parents smoked all of my life but I don't smoke. Did I try it, sure. I don't smoke because I REMEMBERED my first experience with smoking. When I took a puff, my body REJECTED the smoke by coughing! Smoke is not NEEDED to sustain life and my body told me so by trying to get rid of it. But there are MILLIONS of people that FORCE their body to accept it by doing it over and over again. These people range from the very smart people to just plain stupid people. And why do so many people smoke??? Again I believe it is the MEDIA. The government thought this was also true and removed smoking commercials from TV and radio. It's true that smoking did not stop when the ads quit but I hope that the trend slackened. I hope that for any young person that reads this REMEMBERS what their body does in response to the smoking. Don't let your "friends" con you into smoking because it's "cool" because it isn't. It takes a strong person to resist negative peer pressure. In your heart you will know if it is good or not.

 

Drugs

I can't say anything about this subject that hasn't been said a million times. All I can say is DON'T. I've NEVER had an illegal drug in my body and will strive to keep it that way. Some try to say marijuana is safe. Or that it isn't any worse than smoking cigarettes. Just remember that it is ILLEGAL and it's not worth going to jail and having that on your record. Most major companies and many smaller companies do drug testing. I hope this remains in effect. One company that I was applying for even took hair samples. I heard that this is the most effective way to test for drugs, that it detects drug use for the last 60 days or longer. I would even love to see some kind of tester that when you enter a building, you get 'scanned' for drugs.

 

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