Scuba, I agree with your post. Generally, I don't think drinking really goes against what you said.
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Is the fact that you are managing a 4.0 GPA as a freshman in high school supposed to indicate that you are more intelligent than most kids, and therefore will be safer under the influence? Or are you suggesting that your "hard work" this year entitles you to spend the summer making deliberately bad choices?
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Good point.. why did I bring it up in my OP? Probably subconciously for a few reasons:
- To allow for the argument that it will cause my grades to slip
- To display responsibility or perseverance
- To show that I do a lot and need a break
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There were a lot of very bright, very intelligent kids in my freshman class. There are far fewer bright and intelligent students graduating. That gap? It's filled almost entirely with the ones who started partying early, started drinking, smoking, got careless and lazy and lost what they easily could have achieved. And what will happen to them? Nothing too bad. They're all going to decent colleges, except for the occasional hang-over, none have gotten sick from their activities. The alcohol, so far, has had no lasting impact on their well-being.
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Can you say that drinking is what *caused* a slip in grades? You say it has no lasting impact on their well-being.. okay, can I take this as a contradiction to the idea that moderate drinking will impede your success?
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High school is stressful. We get that because we live it, just like you. But it speaks something to someone's character when they struggle through all the daily ********, stay sober, and still make it out on top. It's not a race, it's an endurance contest.
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Remove "stay sober" from that and it's just as true. You could replace it with a million other "positive" attributes like "eating healthily" or "acting in the name of god". They're nice but they aren't necessary in winning the endurance contest.