Abstaining from alcohol and its effects on socializing has a lot to do with the individual’s personality when they are sober. I find that individuals that we hang out with when we consume alcohol is not always the same individuals we spent time with when we are sober. They tend to be the people that we avoid because they are only fun when drunk. As mean as it sounds, we do have friends that we only want to spend time with they are under the influence. They are described as the fun individual and the life of the party. On the other hand, individuals that do not drink at all tend to be easier to be around for socializing. With Toren’s story, we see how his abstaining from alcohol not only affects him but also those around him. In chapter twenty-five,
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Thinking back to the last big event that happened on our own campus, I learned that a lot of underage drinking happened. Many students had describe their plans to “pre-turn up” before the concert and then to continue with their partying afterwards. Students often list their plans for the weekend on social media encouraging others to join in and to bring their own drink, as they plan to get blackout drunk. Drinking games, off campus parties and binge drinking are a large part of the campus party culture. They happen, we know they happen and expect them to happen. More schools have begun to promote alcohol safety on campus, creating safe environments that students can party in without feeling the need to drink. This does not stop the need to drink but lessen the amount of individuals that seem …show more content…
She constantly engaged in “what if”, what if I had paid more attention to what they did during high school, what if I had question him more during college. She made the book feel more about the wrong things she had done in terms of spotting his erratic behavior and less about Toren. However, from her writes, as a reader who is experience in looking for the behaviors of a substance abuser I began to spot many of Toren’s problem from the first chapters. I saw those red flags and realize that even Chris saw them but she was blind by the need to be the perfect family. A state that she and Toren makes that no one but his brothers, mother and father should know about his problems. The stigma about substances abuse drove this family to ignore those signs that they should have seen when Toren was in high
Thinking back to the last big event that happened on our own campus, I learned that a lot of underage drinking happened. Many students had describe their plans to “pre-turn up” before the concert and then to continue with their partying afterwards. Students often list their plans for the weekend on social media encouraging others to join in and to bring their own drink, as they plan to get blackout drunk. Drinking games, off campus parties and binge drinking are a large part of the campus party culture. They happen, we know they happen and expect them to happen. More schools have begun to promote alcohol safety on campus, creating safe environments that students can party in without feeling the need to drink. This does not stop the need to drink but lessen the amount of individuals that seem …show more content…
She constantly engaged in “what if”, what if I had paid more attention to what they did during high school, what if I had question him more during college. She made the book feel more about the wrong things she had done in terms of spotting his erratic behavior and less about Toren. However, from her writes, as a reader who is experience in looking for the behaviors of a substance abuser I began to spot many of Toren’s problem from the first chapters. I saw those red flags and realize that even Chris saw them but she was blind by the need to be the perfect family. A state that she and Toren makes that no one but his brothers, mother and father should know about his problems. The stigma about substances abuse drove this family to ignore those signs that they should have seen when Toren was in high