First off, congratulations on getting clean. You've just dropped a useless and time/money consuming habit, that will almost unequivocally lead you down the wrong path.
Secondly, i live in Australia, where drinking and gambling is a national past-time. It still confuses me how much gambling is integrated into our society, and how hard it is for people to figure out just what is the right amount to drink. I'm a social drinker mainly - i might have a beer with dinner occasionally - but i dont drink to get shit-faced. I drink to relax and loosen myself up, so i can find the confidence to talk to a complete stranger - something i wouldn't normally do.
However, the youth of today dont have that need anymore. They are already confident - they've had it poured into them by their sycophantic parents, who were led to believe back in the eighties that their children need to be told they are 'special' and 'unique'. Now loaded with the understanding that they are super-cool, these kids congregate, realize that they are all the same, and suddenly and horrifically realize that everybody isn't unique or special.
Cue groups of youths wearing B-boy trousers barely past their arseholes and young girls wearing clothes only a hooker would consider fashionable. Then, to really dull the pain, they drink copious amounts of alchohol and do heaps of drugs, because alcohol numbs the senses and drugs alter reality.
Now you have a heap of fucked up fourteen to eighteen year-olds, high on drugs and booze, with nothing to do but destroy stuff or make a mess, because they have nothing to offer the world except destruction and misery, because they have their minds wired to the fact that they are special and unique and, at that age, untouchable, when in actual fact they have the mental capacity of a four-year old throwing a tantrum because, deep down inside themselves, they can see what they are doing and they hate themselves for it, but because of their brainwashing by their parents, they wont admit that they have a fucked-up attitude on life, and so the cycle goes on until one day the money from their parents run out, some greasy scumbag wants his money paid back either now or in blowjobs, and they come to the sudden result that they have pissed away their childhoods when they should have been working hard to prepare for adulthood, when they can really have a good time because then they know how the world works!!!!!
*takes a deep breath*
...What we need, and i know this is harsh, is another world war, to show kids what true hardship is. What the fuck is a bad attitude going to do when some arsehole who wants you dead, not because of you personally, but because of where you come from? I'll tell you - a kid with a bad attitude, in that situation, would piss his pants and cry for his mother before he shows the balls to fight for whats right, instead of right now.
