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Looking up you might see marvelous blue skies and milk white clouds. You might hear the laughter and enjoyment of children or the soft and friendly sound of baby blue birds on a tree. A tree that roars onto you as the wind passes softly then more aggressively. You would feel the autumn leaves fall upon you touching your skin. Or falling beside you forming an outline of your body. You are aware of everything around you.

You see and hear and feel and know.
You know that the calm world around you can be there forever. Still, you know that it's not always there, that it won't always be. It can't be. Specially not for everyone. You will see different colors feel different winds and see different skies.

info please: what is A L C O H O L I S M ?

(http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0192787.html)

What Is Alcoholism?

Alcoholism is a disease that is characterized by the following:

* Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.
* Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.
* Physical dependence: The occurrence of withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking. These symptoms are usually relieved by drinking alcohol or by taking another sedative drug.
* Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get “high.”

Encounter part II

What happened? She was trying to help this man.
He wanted a cup of coffee, needed a dollar, then wanted a beer.
Then he asked for her
"come to my home... i will show you my home... it's just over there"
The girl didn't go.
She simply crossed the street completely confused. She looked over for a moment and saw him in the same position as she had first seen him.

As she walked she thought of the man. She thought of his oblivion, of his desperation, of his need. She could not help but to feel an immense throb in her. She struggled to hold back tear dots.
This would become an encounter embedded in her eyes and mind.

Something strange

Out of all the Latino/Hispanic novels (which are many), American shows and in movies I have seen there is always someone or more than one person who smokes or drinks alcohol at their parties or just at home. Now if you are the kind of person who watches them and have siblings or children they will start to see that as normal. And possibly end up pretending to do that as a fun activity.Why does a party need to have any form of alcohol so that it can be complete? I don' understand. You can have a great time without involving yourself in alcohol.
Everyone is exposed to drugs and alcohol.
Everyone has knowledge of it.
Everyone must face and chose for themselves whether or not they will become one more human pulled into the sick enchantment of drugs and or alcohol.

That game...

The following is something that shocked me when I heard about it. The main tittle of it pretty much gives it away. It's the CHOKING GAME, "Space Monkey, Blackout, Rising Sun, Knockout, Passing Out Game, Dreaming, Fainting Game, Flat Liner, Black Out and Funky Chicken"(Chocking Game). Those are the many names this "game" has been called.
Basically, kids have been experiencing this game to get "high". Kids have been choking them selves and their friends just for this."Many children don’t see the harm in playing the choking game...They are often fascinated by the prospect of getting high without using drugs" (Chocking Game). Sure there not using alcohol or drugs but their killing each other choking one another as a game to experience this dream like feeling.

Here are the signs and symptoms:
"Severe headaches, Raspy breath, Bloodshot or red eyes, Belts, ties, etc. found around the house, marks on the neck, and an unusual need for privacy"(The Choking Game).
The real terrible thing is that kids have died because of this so called "game". "All children who play the game (either with friends or alone) can lose consciousness within one minute and die in as little as two to four minutes" (Chocking Game)

Out playing with friends...

They were out their playing with their friends. A pretty normal day I guess. When that one kids brother offered them a smoke. That guy was so much older, he knew better right? He should have. "By age 18, almost 12 percent of all young people are illicit drug users" (coaching international). They were thirteen and ten.
Not knowing this statistic they didn't take it. That irresponsible man couldn't make them. They do know. They also knew that when they were kids they pretended to smoke. It was cool for them. The "TV people" did it, movies, TV shows. They made it cool. It looked like it couldn't harm at all. But they knew better now. The TV that's were everything is glamorized for the young, for almost everyone. You see the rebel tough guys smoking on TV giving a message that this is cool. The message that says, "hey look at me i am cool i smoke, i drink, this is cool".

She has known it...

She has known it for the longest time. Since a toddler to a young lady. She would see her father sitting down on the big squeaky brown rolly chair beside the table where the glass of Budweiser beer would sit. That was his favorite brand.

She recognizes that smell, that drink he always managed to finish. How can someone have so much room for all that? It was crazy for that little girl. To think that all that money spent on 6, 24 packs of beer per day could of helped for something in the future... Something worth for. He knew he had to stop someday. Kept telling himself. Kept telling her. ]Kept promising. Kept failing her. Kept disappointing her. why couldn't he stop! Why? She got tired of telling him but not tired of hoping the best for him..." Approximately 27 million Americans either use illicit drugs regularly or are "heavy drinkers." Of these almost 16 million are estimated to need immediate treatment" (coaching international).