We also should understand if one of us breaks the guidelines which help protect the people and ourselves living in that community from being hurt based on our actions. Alcohol has been proven to affect our cognitive function and if your underage it can impact your health significantly and that 's why their are laws to protect the youth from consuming alcohol. The legal policies are their to protect the youth and the other policies such as drinking and driving are their in place to protect the youth and the policies such as drinking and driving to protect the community from getting hurt and as for the individuals themselves. The community guidelines make sure that the substance that you are taking doesn’t health your personal health but also affects our …show more content…
Cristian it’s your birthday take a shot! Your 20 years old now and don’t worry you 're almost of age and plus DPS will not find out since we are all quiet.” “Cool man. Thanks for the offer but I can’t and I’m also leaving since I been in trouble before and I don’t want to deal with housing again. See you man and enjoy your night, I’m going to grab food or something.” “Alright bro! Keep it real and see you another time.” I know my friends will try to do something for my birthday and I hope they don’t want to drink that night since I personally don’t want to get into trouble ever with housing again. Just telling my friend the honest truth and telling him what I want to do will make it better for me to leave that situation. I will just instead look into finding methods and ways to not get put in the situation of drinking alcohol just by avoiding it and just doing what I like to do.
I know the future is unknown and I made a mistake which was drinking underage but I learned that you can learn from these mistakes and grow as an individual. I told myself that I don’t want to be in the similar embarrassing situation ever again and I will do my best to never be in the situation with alcohol. Even if it is one sip of alcohol I’m still affecting the community so might as well wait 2 years more and then I can drink when I’m of age. Until then, I’ll stick to water and soft drinks since getting into trouble for alcohol is not worth it at