Why I Will Say No To Alcohol and Drugs

Jennifer Murillo
8th Grader

I’m like no other person and no person is alike, when I put my mind to something I complete it. Well to say it right out, I will say no to drugs and alcohol for the most important person in the world…myself. Well the reasons for my choice are my health, my school effort, my family, and the most important choice was my dad.

First I’m going to start with the thing that allows me to keep on living and breathing, my health. Well I have heart problems so if I take drugs and/or alcohol they will increase. I mean come on, I’m only 13 I don’t want red eyes or yellow teeth all the time. I respect people and I expect them to respect me. To what I have seen there are girls that get raped when they don’t even know what is happening al because they decided to use drugs or they just got drunk.

Next is my school effort, it’s very important to me and I’m very serious about it. My goal this year is to get my GPA score up to a 4.0 and I don’t want anything less. Drugs and alcohol don’t make me a better person it would make me lazy. There are many kids who look up to me and I don’t want to disappoint them. Choir is a great place to let out my feelings without anyone judging me. Drugs and alcohol affect my letters of recommendations for college and really badly want to go to Harvard. My saying for life is “Your life goals are faraway stars that you will soon reach.” I will not reach them if I use drugs and alcohol.

Also I will say no to drugs and alcohol because of my family. I’ll hurt them, myself, but mostly my little sister. Her name is Christina She isn’t little Miss Einstein yet she’s one of the kids that looks up to me. She tries her hardest to be just like me, when she does something wrong you just don’t want to be there. You will be just like me and start crying. But what I could just not stand is to be seeing my sister get on drugs and alcohol just because of me. You see not only her but my family relatives from both sides of my family. Many kids and adults have best friends their own age. I do have friend yet my best friend is 35 years old…She’s my mom. I don’t want her to be disappointed in me and I don’t want to give her problems because of drugs alcohol.

Finally why I will say no to drugs and alcohol is because of my dad if you don’t know he past away on Oct. 30. 2005. I never got to say goodbye, but I’m not getting to my point. A couple days before the accident he gave me a talk. I will remember it always “You must be proud of yourself like I am. You have good grades and to top it off you don’t use drugs or alcohol. I don’t want you to use those things all right promise me that.” “Don’t worry I won’t”. Well on the day he was having his funeral I was crying a lot but the 1 thing I remembered was that promise. It was the worst thing I had to do was say goodbye I went close and said “Don’t worry dad I will keep my promise you know me I will”. That was probably the last thing I got to say to him before he got sent to Mexico. I mean it was so sudden I never expected it I mean tomorrow could be my day and I don’t want that day to come soon I want to live my life all the way through.

In conclusion, I hope I got my point through so the reasons as you know is because of my health, school effort, family, and my promise for my dad.