You see, here's the thing... one day, you're 17-years-old and nothing can stop you. One day, you're riding in the bed of a truck with your arms spread wide and your hair in the wind and everything is how it should be. You're happy and you're laughing and your friends are all right next to you. One day, life is there. You never truly know when life is going to continue or end. We are not promised tomorrow even though many of us feel entitled to it. We are not even promised the rest of today, the rest of this hour. Knowing this, why do we still act as if we're invincible when we know we're not? I will never understand how we can suffer through the loss of our friend, a classmate, a brother... and still put ourselves in the same situation they did. Why risk it all for some fun? There is so much more to this life than our adventures today. We still have so much to look forward to and so much to accomplish, and yet, we think it can't all be snatched away from us. Every year, we lose someone, it's a reoccurring event. Every night, we hear of people we care about driving home after a few beers and deem it to be okay. But why do we let it happen, knowing they may not make it home? So many questions run through my head and so few answers surface to my mind. If we want to survive in this world, we need to support one another. Don't let someone who's been drinking drive home. It is simple. We can prevent this epidemic of stupidity. I have lost two friends in the past six months because of it, and I refuse to lose more. When will we realize? When will we change? Whether you believe it or not, it's taking our friends. WE can take a stand, WE can keep one another around long enough to see the success that is buried down in each of us. I just hope that it stops soon, I want to keep all of you around until we're old and wrinkly, because that is the life we deserve. If we learn to simply be smart and realize what's happening, we can save our friends.

Sincerely,

Me