Ahhh, Sunday morning. A fresh start to the week and a new day! I wake up, stretch, look out the window and see a glorious crisp autumn day. I put on a bathrobe and walk down to the bathroom with a smile on my face. However, as I stand over the sink washing my face, I hear a “bluuuuuugghhhh”. A girl is throwing up in the stall beside me. I gag and quickly hurry out of my bathroom back into my room where I hide under my covers trying to get that terrible sound out of my head.
Why do weekends have to be filled with binge drinking and hangovers?
It’s really sad actually. I see it most for freshman who have this dream of college being one wild crazy ride that is nonstop fun. It makes me sad to think about college girls that come to JMU thinking that this will be the time of their lives. And with that mindset give so much of themselves away.
When I left for college I was excited about the new experience and finding new relationships. For many of my friends back home, they have found that it is not as fun as they had expected because they were looking for their identity in drinking, drugs, and sex. Many colleges and universities try to decrease alcohol abuse by informing their students about the effects of it. However, I, along with many other people have seen first hand what the effects are. And that may help inform, but I don’t think it gets to the root of the problem. People are looking for life and happiness in things that won’t get them there. And that, is what people need to see. They need to see that these temporary fixes are so empty in their promise that they will leave you worse off.
When the girls on my hall on Monday talk about where the party is on Thursday, I just wish and hope that someday they’ll find out there is so much more to life than these superficial things. College also gives us a chance to build relationships that can last forever and can build us into strong, intelligent, and respectable men and women.
Well said, Julia.
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