Pre-Spring Break Drama

So, it's senior year. Many of the seniors are going to Mexico. A few of the seniors planned their own trips. Regardless, spring break anticipation has started to bounce around the hallways and infiltrate the minds of the otherwise studious students. Yes, even me.

Obviously, as a female, I find gossip highly entertaining. Therefore, discussions of how so-and-so is going to be drunk or so-and-so is going to hook up with you-know who are highly entertaining. But what I find most fascinating is the reasoning behind these rendezvous.

Why would I want to be so drunk that I don't remember anything? Why would I want to randomly hook up with some guy and not even like him? Why would I want to party so hard that I am living on the cusp of alcohol poisoning all of the time? The answer is that I have no reason to. I love my life, my friends, my family, my school, and my potential. I don't want to forget anything or regret anything. Ok, one drink is fine, but when one turns to four or five consecutively in a short amount of time, there is a problem. A problem that consists of an unhappy life and low self-esteem that needs bolstering by outside influences and peer pressure.

I am very thankful for every aspect of my life, especially my friends. They are supportive and generally believe in themselves and their abilities. They do not plan on getting "completely wasted" and parading around like the rowdy teenagers seen in movies. We carry on intelligent, or gossipy, or heart-to-heart conversations, we plan to go on physically demanding excursions, and we plan to just hang out and relax. relax. relax.