Since my middle school years, I heard that Haines City High School (HCHS) was a breeding ground for gang fights, drug sellers, and dropouts. However, I was unable to attend another high school due to my parents not being able to drive me to a different school. “Discipline yourself to keep on track to really achieve any goal that is worthwhile until it's accomplished.”, a quote that I read and led my entry in high school. As my goals are to join the military and graduate from college with my bachelor’s degree, HCHS has the JROTC program and computer classes that I seeking for.
The freshman year of high school came around and the influences of drugs and alcohol were a daily presence in and outside of the classroom. Peer pressure was the biggest problem of all as the friends I had at the time started drinking and lowering their grades. I life wake-up call and I began seeking out a portion of the school that wasn’t involved in these social illness. I started to become a member of the JROTC and Emerald brigade band to be focused. Sharing my experience was part of the remedial process, useful tool that bring the opportunity to help other students and start to become a leader.
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I realized that it is in my hands how I want to shape my future and whether or not I would want to stay away from alcohol and drugs. I made the choice to stay away and surround myself with those who did. Even by doing so the presence is there daily. But every day I think back to what my father told me as a freshman, “I drank and smoked from the age of fourteen. After my marriage, I realized I was having your sister and I decided to quit and change my life so that both of you would not have an abusive alcoholic father.” This reason has stuck in my mind because I do not wish to be one when I grow up. I use this lesson to help new JROTC cadets with the same
Alcohol Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship worldwide consisting of over one hundred thousand men and women who are alcoholics, banded together in solving a common problem and in helping fellow alcohol users in their recovery from alcoholism. A.A.'s twelve steps are considered a list of principles which are spiritual in their nature, and if practiced as a way of life by members, can help significantly in expelling a member’s obsession to drink, and enable a holistic awareness. Step one is when the member admits they are powerless over the use of alcohol, resulting in an unmanageable life. No one wants to admit defeat, but admitting powerlessness over alcohol is the first step in becoming liberated. Step two is having a belief that the almighty power can restore their sanity. Step three is making the decision to turn their will and life over in the protection of the almighty God, which is the key to willingness of change as noted by the Twelve Steps of recovery. Step four is...
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