<p>What’s worse</p>
<p>Being addicted to drugs and alchohol for…let’s say 7 years.
Vs failing a lot of classes in high school.</p>
<p>I think failing is worse.
You can always recover from drugs and alchohol and still have your gradesand be able to succeed in life.</p>
<p>But you cant go back to HS</p>
<p>Are you trying to decide between the two?</p>
<p>Being addicted, of course. If you were addicted, that could take a toll on your health. If you had failing grades, you can always go to school to get a GED and then eventually go to college.</p>
<p>Well. I got 4 b’s this junior year and I’ve been depressed about it.
So I look at successful people who were addicted and compare my situation to it.</p>
<p>Haha oh god, I immediately thought “BAD GRADES ARE WORSE ALWAYS” and then I realized that no, being addicted is supposed to be the worser of the two. Messed up priorities, wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of the forum has the same knee jerk reaction.
Anyway, no, addiction is clearly worse with some clear thought. Addiction screws your entire life. There are plenty of people who are happy and got/get poor grades in high school.</p>
<p>Of course drug addiction is worse, though I am very happy for the people who think otherwise–their lives must be blessedly privileged.</p>
<p>Also, to the OP: You may wish to compare your life to those of the millions of addicts worldwide who have not and will never recover from their condition. Instead of, you know, the extremely small number of recovering addicts who have managed to turn their lives around completely and/or succeed despite their issues.</p>
<p>I assure you that happiness is much easier to attain after failing a high-school class than it is after losing years or even decades of your life, along with society’s respect and your friends and family’s support (not to mention your self-image and health).</p>
<p>Oh, and personally, I failed chemistry in 10th grade and almost failed physics and biology on more than one occasion throughout high school. I was put on probation four times in school. And, as someone with some experience in dealing with bad grades, I would rather go back and fail each and every one of my classes than become addicted to heroin. So there.</p>
<p>What kind of question is this…</p>
<p>The addiction.</p>
<p>Who cares if you fail at school? You won’t necessarily fail at life. If you have a drug dependency and/or an alcohol dependency, you will be fighting that for the rest of your life. No questions asked.</p>
<p>Once an alcoholic always an alcoholic. People may manage their addictions, but they’ll never be completely rid of them.</p>
<p>Oh goodness… addiction is worse. Easily. High school is just a blink of the eye in comparison to the rest of your life. As long as you graduate, you’ll be fine, and if not, there’s always a GED, community college and transferring to somewhere better. Poor grades are no where near the end. True addiction is. True addiction kills–drunk driving that ended my grandmother’s life (she and my grandfather, who was driving, were both drunk, which was a normal occurrence). My grandfather is completely sober now, but how much do you think he regrets beating my dad and uncle while he was drunk? How much do you think he regrets being the driver that virtually killed my grandmother? How much do you think he regrets every stupid decision he did when he was under the influence? These are the decisions that made my dad cut him off, making it so I didn’t know my grandfather until I was ten. These are the decisions that made my dad and uncle grow up without a mother. These are the decisions that put those two in foster care. I’m sure my grandfather, if he could, would trade bad grades for that addiction any day.</p>
<p>Lmao. This question can be found only on College Confidential</p>
<p>Although if you are addicted you probably will have bad grades as a result. So I guess I’d just rather have bad grades.</p>
<p>Your health should be the priority of your life, not some superficial and trivial crap like high school grades that so minutely affect the potential success of your future. You don’t just “recover” from addiction whenever you feel like it.</p>
<p>^Are you suggesting that health is the ultimate goal of life?</p>
<p>Oh the philosophical ramifications…</p>
<p>Bad grades! My cousin isn’t necessarily addicted to drugs in a negative way, instead he uses it to function in life. And on top of that, he is one intellectual guy. So definitely bad grades.</p>
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<p>I don’t think a priority necessarily reflects the “ultimate goal of life.”</p>
<p>^But it would be quite the statement, nö?</p>
<p>You know how they say that there are no stupid questions? Well, they were wrong.</p>
<p>^But that’s not a question? It’s a statement.</p>
<p>This is a statement.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh boy, editing your posts, eh? Well two can play at that game.</p>
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<p>If you’re asking for my opinion, sure. Why not.</p>