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One of my last shreds of belief in society was cut the other day. Only a scant few remain. This epiphany comes after a long discussion with a friend on the actuality of a problem that I thought was not as widespread as I have come to understand. I am a Teen Counselor and I go down to the little 4th graders every other Tuesday and tell them about the dangers of drugs and alcohol and tobacco. I was required to sign a comitment to the effect that I will not partake in such substances while a Teen Counselor. I didn't even think twice about my ability to stay true to such a document, but it seems that many people have trouble even doing that. I have heard that as many as half of the Teen Counselors have broken their comitment. I can't even begin to understand how you would go and tell young children how bad something is and then go do it yourself. How can you look at yourself in a mirror with such hippocrisy in your brain? I have never even been in a situation where anything to that nature is present, so I cannot even fathom where any of it could be obtained from. Perhaps the alcohol and the cigarettes but don't people get carded anymore? Or if they do...are they getting it from older friends or even parents? Where are the morals? Imagine that, a liberal talking about lack of morals. And if people who have signed a comitment to the effect of not doing such things and have broken it, what are the odds for people who haven't inked their John Hancock on a piece of paper. What is this world coming to? And don't even get me started on divorce rates, I'll save that for the next rant. |
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