Do you live above the influence?

I can't let something take control of my actions for me. And I don't even know to what degree drugs do take control of your actions, but I suppose it's pretty big. I really can't afford to find out. I think the things I do under my own control are pretty stupid. I can't even imagine what I would be like on drugs.

Alcohol is the one that takes most control of your actions. I used to turn people on to weed and hallucinogens, and the reaction was always "Wait, why is this illegal?" Not to mention proven psych benefits.

On the subject of Social Darwinism I like to think that the world needs the weaker people as well as the stronger people. Even if the weaker people cannot do everything as well as the stronger people can.

I like to decide on the things without anything blurring my head. I don't know what's people taking all those addictive like alcohol and drugs and pots, and do all those things they did. It's still better to live healthy without anything influencing the way you act and think.

What about you?

I for my life, cannot understand why people, especially young teenagers throw their lives away with drugs. I’m sorry but I just can’t believe a fourteen year old that could be depressed enough to start drinking and doing pot. I also have no sympathy for this one friend of mine that started doing drugs over a break-up with a girl. It’s just… pointless. The weaker people are the ones that do drugs in my opinion. I feel as if they’re just looking for more trouble to come their way, as if they want to make their situation worse than they already feel it is. I think the whole thing is just selfish, unless they have a good enough and deeply understandable reason (illness, maybe?).

It’s far better to live healthy and uninfluenced though. I don’t think it makes one naïve or weak, as so many of the people I know insist.

I'm not as influenced as a lot of people, but I'm certainly not drug free...

From what I'm noticing, drugs - legal and not - seem to be a reccurring theme in the lives of many... it's sort of difficult to escape it. A stronger person would live their lives drug free, I guess... but... that would seem more like effort to me. I have a friend who abstains from all caffeine and, well, everything else... she doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, keeps away from prescription medicine and even shizz you can buy in any supermarket, like paracetamol... that's pretty cool.

I'm above the influence. And hopefully it'll stay that way.
Damn temptation sometimes gets the best of people.

Way, way above it.
I know it's probably stupid to say, but I actually was sort of saved by "D.A.R.E." in elementary school. :XD
Before that, I pretty much planned on smoking and drinking and stuff sometime in life... yeah, I was sort-of a dumb kid.
Though, I never ever considered the serious serious drugs, like meth or anything.
But yeah... I'm proudly above the influence. :yah

Way above it :con:
Sure, I have tried alcohol, but never liked it and never will.

It really takes a lot of me to understand why people choose to ruin their health and lives over a night of fun...

The only thing I've tried is alcohol, didn't like the taste, and so have never been drunk.
My Step-Dad says that "no one likes it when they first try it, you've got to let yourself get used to it." Wtf? People drink stuff they don't like so they can lose control of their minds and bodies for a night. No thanks.

I have never tried drugs of anykind [except pain killers of course] and have never smoked [I'm not going to go down the same road as my parents] but I do drink. And I do like to drink.

I've never been completely wasted but I think I've been close. Drink has different effects on different people. It makes me go light headed and all hot in the face, but other people it has no physical effect. I like it for the confidence it gives me. I know people are probably thinking 'Well if drink is all that gives you confidence then that's pathetic' but you probably don't understand. I'm not going to get drunk off my mind where I don't remember anything that happened the night before.

So I guess to sum up, I'm not above the influence.

I like a social drink. But I like the taste. And on my Dad's side (he's Easten European) everyone has a drink of wine with dinner. I've never taken anything though. That was my Mum's generation.

I smoke cigarettes, but that's it.

I don't know if that makes me above or below the influence.

LoriDaWriter:

Alcohol is the one that takes most control of your actions.

Alcohol is a walk in the park in comparison to harder, illegal drugs like heroin or crystal meth. They control you like nothing else.

I don't "live above the influence". I drink, sometimes I binge drink. To be honest I couldn't give a shit about being "above the influence". I'll just do what I want to do.

I don't see the appeal drugs and alcohol have, so I don't think I'll bother with them in life.

I don't live "above the influence". But I don't necessarily think drinking and smoking pot are awful for you. I'm for the legalization of marijuana. I've done it a few times. I drink. I haven't been drunk since I turned 21. (Legal age in the U.S.) And I was only drunk a handful of times before I was 21. I smoke cigarettes on an almost daily basis.

However, I don't condone using harder drugs and I don't think it's good to let any drug take over your life. But they won't necessarily ruin in. A person I know has a mother who is addicted to marijuana. She has a very successful job as a radio DJ and she is an absolutely wonderful person.

I can't for the life of me understand why people would do drugs/smoke/drink. I mean, I understand if you're going out with friends and want a drink, but there's nothing fun about being passed out in a corner, covered in vomit, killing your brain cells or making a fool of yourself while dancing on a table, also killing brain cells.
Drugs are way worse, though. I wouldn't even consider doing drugs. It has never, ever appealed to me in the slightest, and I'm not sure what "temptation" people are talking about. The temptation to possibly sacrifice your health for a little bit of pleasure? I don't think so. I'm nice and comfy right here, way above the influence.
No offense to people who drink and do drugs. I just don't completely understand what you get out of it.

People do it for reasons some minds will never understand. I could compare it to sex, many think it`s absurd to be without sex for an entire lifetime, such as many think straight edge is absurd. While it is our nature to want sex, not many people ignore these urges. Where, it is also in our nature, in this day and age, to let loose. And this is the socially excepted way. So it`s a complete conflict, with UTI and SXE humans. SXE humans have never done it, and if they`ve concured curiousity, or have never had the urge, will never understand. UTI humans can`t believe curiousity has not taken over the other, because it`s most likely how they had their first drink.

Many people who end up in the corner puking and avid party folks, drunks, and someone who is depressed. But we also have the hard working man who need to feel out of control, to not constantly be in the driver`s seat, not have everything in order, to block out his day from his home time. He drinks to intoxication, then sleeps, wakes up with a hangover, gets ready for work, with many pain killers in his system, comes home, and does it again. He will fall into a pattern and may or not become an alcoholic.

And many will not understand what happened to this hard working man.

They, don`t see it as throwing there life away. As SXE persons think of better things to do with there time.

I guess it may have to do with how they grow up...

Hmm...

Well. I don`t know. I am not straight edge. Ì drink, and I smoke sometimes. But I respect people who are straight edge, because I don`t think I could do it. I grew up around drinking, it`s always been something... normal for me.

I don't drink, but its a personal choice. It's different for everybody.

The main reason I don't, I think, is because I'm too scared of what will happen if I lose control. Because I am too worried of doing something stupid or revealing more than I want to 'cause I keep a lot to myself. I don't know. I never trust the people around me enough, and I'm paranoid of having regrets.

... I do want to try weed, though, because I want to see what its like. :shifty But there's only one person I want to be with when I do.

The Brightside.:

I don't drink, but its a personal choice. It's different for everybody.

The main reason I don't, I think, is because I'm too scared of what will happen if I lose control. Because I am too worried of doing something stupid or revealing more than I want to 'cause I keep a lot to myself. I don't know. I never trust the people around me enough, and I'm paranoid of having regrets.

... I do want to try weed, though, because I want to see what its like. :shifty But there's only one person I want to be with when I do.

EXACTLY my opinion.
I really don't trust people easily, and the people I do trust, I have known and trusted for years. I would rather have no friends than have friends I can't trust. So when it comes to things like drinking or smoking pot...I guess I would want to make sure that I would be safe. And you can't be sure - you're not mentally able to control your actions. Having a friend with you, you may think that you can smoke or drink, that your friend will watch after you. But what if they're smoking and/or drinking too?
I just would rather be able to control and look after myself. I don't really trust many other people to do so.
Plus...I'm kinda the one that ends up looking after my friends. :/

So yes...I do want to try pot - I just don't believe that it would be safe.
I have drank before, but only sips, no heavy drinking or anything.

But I am above the influence!
Alcohol and drugs have ruined my ex-boyfriend's life. :/

The worst thing I do is drink coffee and take too many ibuprofen.
I'm highly against drugs and alcohol of any kind for personal reasons and I think because the reasons are so personal that it's going to stick.

I am above the infulence, I used to SI ... but that doesnt count does it ?

Mania xx.:

I can't for the life of me understand why people would do drugs/smoke/drink. I mean, I understand if you're going out with friends and want a drink, but there's nothing fun about being passed out in a corner, covered in vomit, killing your brain cells or making a fool of yourself while dancing on a table, also killing brain cells.
Drugs are way worse, though. I wouldn't even consider doing drugs. It has never, ever appealed to me in the slightest, and I'm not sure what "temptation" people are talking about. The temptation to possibly sacrifice your health for a little bit of pleasure? I don't think so. I'm nice and comfy right here, way above the influence.
No offense to people who drink and do drugs. I just don't completely understand what you get out of it.

I was an addict and in and out of rehab centers since I was fourteen.
Drugs were an escape for me.
When everything going on in life is just too much,
taking a risk with your health is the last thing on your mind.
My need to be in an altered state of mind was insatiable,
and cocaine and alcohol were the only things I knew would always be there.
I suppose if you've never experienced such things,
then you might consider the temptation of drugs to be miniscule.
But for some people, drugs produce the happiness they never feel.

I'm turning eighteen in January, and while I don't blow coke anymore, I do smoke bud. I doubt that I will ever live above the influence, but I'm trying to stay away from the heavy drugs. That lifestyle is so hard to break away from.