The Last Post

I like to think I've helped kids my age and in turn this program has really helped me. Most of these kids deserve a second chance and I feel like we have given it to them for their own benefit. Their is so much potential in our youth that has yet to be discovered because it so far underground. Nowadays teenagers turn to drugs for fun, for depression, for sadness, for happiness, for anything. I think there will always be a problem with drugs and that my goal will be a constant battle for me and for others. But there still are good kids and ones that have learned from their mistakes and strive to do better. There are still some that can be helped and that are worth helping.. They just need the push. I have seen so many loved ones fall down the road of drugs that it has left me with a painful memory embedded into my brain. Helping other kids is my way of clearing the awful memories and making newer, happier ones. So in some terms I have reached my goal and others no. I have reached it in the sense of self improvement and helping the kids that will let themselves be helped. I have failed in doing that to every kid because that is something that just cannot be done. It is up to future generations to help themselves and realized they have a problem or an addiction. The reason teenagers are so repetitive in bad behavior is because they are care free and they don't think anything will hurt them.. But it's really only a matter of time. I constantly hear the regrets of adults in what they did as a kid and that they would do it all differently. I have taken that advice to heart but some would rather live for now than for later. Sometimes human nature is not always the best kind of nature.. It is very naive and unaware.

I will continue with peer court because I think it is such a neat program and it is such an experience to be part of. I have volunteered to go to the youth peer court summit which is basically all of the youth courts in California coming together and meeting each other, sharing ideas, etc. I was involved in the summit last year as well and met so many cool people (some that were respondents and became apart of the courts and some who volunteered like me). This was probably the best experience I've ever had in my life because of all the interesting people I met. We all shared the same idea about our youth but our courts and cultures were so different. One of my best friends I met through summit and we talk to this day still and looking forward to seeing each other again this year. We are going to Malibu down in Southern California. What we do in summit is just sign up for a couple classes about drugs abuse, bullying, sex offenders, etc and then go to performances and meetings to talk about them. It is really interesting and then of course there is social time where you hang out with the other county's and talk. Extremely fun.

Well I hope you guys enjoyed reading my blogs and hearing about this sort of thing. It's a sad thing, our youth. It needs a little more attention because they are the future parents, employees, etc of this world. We don't want them all to be messed up kids AND adults.