A time that I was about to lose my
friend through a decision that I stand strong for was I was against smoking and
drinking. I felt like smoking and drinking has so much side affects that can
harm someone in the future. In high school smoking and drinking would actually
be an act of coolness. Not sure why but I always stood against my beliefs until
my friend broke up in his first relationship. There wasn't much ha time that I
was about to lose my friend through a decision that I stand strong for was I
was against smoking and drinking. I felt like smoking and drinking has so much
side affects that can harm someone in the future. In high school smoking and
drinking would actually be an act of coolness. Not sure why but I always stood
against my beliefs until my friend broke up in his first relationship. There
wasn't much he could do to take away the pain mainly tried drinking for the
first time and eventually smoking. The more he did it more he changed in his
personality such as his attitude towards others and the fact he didn't care no
more. I stood my ground and explained how he changed after he was influenced at
least 4-5 times a week. I was almost on the edge of our relationship until I
felt like the only way was to step away and let him learn himself. I wanted to
understand how the people around him cared about him so much that if he loses
us in the end he would be alone. When he began realizing what he had before he
tried to quit and going back to his old ways. Today he still recovering slowly
not as influenced as before which is a lot better. Critical thinking helped me
evolve into standing strong to what I believe and think of ways we can take a
problem and help solve it in a kindly manner. Standing strong for what I
believe helped change my friend and might have saved a life.
I really understand where you are coming from, I am also against people smoking and drinking. I have seen too many people spiral down and never come back up from drinking and smoking. I have had many friends who have begun this path despite my disagreement with it. I think that you are very lucky that your friend is recovering because most of the friends that I have had that have done this are now in a place that I don’t think that they will recover from. Also I don’t know if you realized that you repeated the first half of your post, maybe try to check what you write before posting, I do it on a word program then copy it to the post section. Hope that helps.
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