Dear The Lost Ones,

Don't you miss the days when you weren't living for the weekends? Don't you miss the days when happiness wasn't at the end of the bottle? Before drinking every night to mask yourself became a tradition.

A tradition of avoiding your problems. Avoiding problems that were real. But the realness was just too much wasn't it? Too much to face. Too much to bare. Because why face the real world? Why face reality? Why not get lost in the night? Why not drink one too many so that you can feel alive again? Because that's what you're really chasing isn't it? Something to make you feel.

Feel anything that is because lately you've been feeling nothing. Because you're scared. Scared of what feeling might actually do to you. Scared of facing any problems head on because life seems too scary to bare.

You see that's what college and life in general can do to you. It can make you turn your cheek to your problems and lose yourself in bad habits. Habits that can often cause destruction. Destruction that can make you lose your friends and family, or cause you to fail your classes or lose your job.

So while masking your problems may seem like a quick fix by self medicating them with alcohol or drugs, be sure you're in control of your life. Be sure that when you're having a good time that it's for the right reasons and that you're not constantly on the run from reality. Be sure that you're facing reality before you lose yourself in the night. A night that's ready to swallow you like a black hole.