Can’t resist the temptations, can’t turn down those peer pressures in the teenage years, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“My drug addictions almost, ruined me”, because of curiosity, or peer pressures, a lot of the younger generations became addicted to illegal substances, and, if they weren’t able to, turn around in time, they may have, destroyed their entire lives.
what it looks like, not my art…
“Everybody’s doing it”, Der (false name), a second-year high school student was raised up by his grandparents, his grandfather couldn’t discipline him, and, they couldn’t communicate well, he couldn’t catch up in his academics, couldn’t get the affirmations he’d longed for, and he saw his classmates joined into the group of temple dancers, decided to join in.
After the performances, Der saw a lot of his cohorts snuffing up white powder, and looked extremely high, he’d asked them what they were doing, they’d told him they were abusing ketamine, and, some even asked if he dared to do it too.
“Why not!”, in the compounded stresses from the peer pressures, and his desperation to being accepted by his peers, the very first time Der did ketamine for free, and every time afterwards, whether it be after the rehearsals, or the performances, the owner of the shrine would provide the illegal substances for the students to use, as a reward, slowly, he’d gotten, addicted, and after the owner of the shrine was caught for drug abuse, he’d ratted him out too.
The twenty-three-year-old, An was at the top of his class back in elementary school, and managed to get into the gifted and talented program for English in middle school, and, as he’d not gotten into the gifted and talented program in high school, he’d found bad influences to hang with, started smoking, skipped school to go to the beaches, and the net cafés, gotten into fights too.
With the complexities of his friends, he’d also gotten involved with drugs, and believed, that he was, not at all, addicted, other than repeatedly using ketamine, he’d used more and more of it, from just a pack a month, to five, six packs a day, it’d driven his girlfriend away from him.
Later on, An changed his mind, feared that he might do something stupid that will hurt his own parents, decided to detox. He said, when he was relapsing, he’d become limp, and feel that panic rising inside of him, and started having paranoid delusions too; he’d screamed so loud inside his own bedroom, while his parents cried hard outside the doors, later on, after he was, checked into the rehab centers, he’d successfully, kicked his own drug habits.
Hao-Hao started heading down the wrong paths at age nineteen. After he’d used continually for three, four years, his health deteriorated, his bladder was damaged, causing him to go to the restrooms once every five or ten minutes.
His parents arrested him inside the home to prevent him from using, but, in order to get his hands on more drugs, he’d, climbed out of the third story lanai, ended up breaking his legs. As he was recuperating at home, he’d often thought to himself, “a good and healthy person once, how, did I end up like this? Is this, what I really wanted for myself?”, he was, determined, to get off the drugs.
After three months of locking himself up at home, Hao-Hao thought he was detoxed, but once he’d gone to a karaoke with his friends, and, couldn’t turn down the temptation of “just try it out”, he’d started, abusing drugs again, causing his bladder to become overly active that he’d needed to get up every five minutes, it was, very painful for him, and that, was when his mother checked him into a rehab course, he’s now, welcoming, a brand new life, his own.
So, it is, very easy to get addicted, and hard, to get off of these drugs, and, a lot of the teens started using because of how they lacked that sense of belonging from home, and due to peer pressures too, and yet, once you get hooked, you’re, totally, screwed for life, because getting on drugs is way easier, than getting off of it.