Today was the first day of doing what I want in my life!!! After I decided to make this blog I also decided to make a bucket list.  One of my bucket list items was to go to a concert.  Yesterday there was a concert for Demi Lovato with Hot Chelle Rae.  Since I was going to be in Utah already for the concert I thought “why not make it a whole weekend thing and go and see people that you care about haven’t seen for a while”.  The main point of this blog today is for everyone to realize that we are all different and have been through different trails and also different experiences. 

The things in our lives help define us.  I know that because I have the title of being ‘LDS’ there are different ways that I perceive things.  One of those things is alcohol.  I have been taught from a young age not just in church but also school that we shouldn’t drink.  There were assemblies that showed car crashes and people puking in toilets.  All the side effects of what drinking will do to you.  There is another side that ad agencies and billboards show us, the side that you look ‘sexy’ while drinking, that you have fun all the time! What they don’t show you is what happens in the end.  When I look at drinking what I see is people putting more depressants in their bodies.  One beer or glass of wine may not hurt you but what happens when you keep drinking, start doing shots or whatever other kind of alcohol there is?

I have heard stories of people not remembering what happened that night. Waking up somewhere they don’t remember being! How can you do that to yourself?!? Then having a hangover the next day!  I don’t understand how people can put themselves so low enough just to have a ‘good time’? Along with drinking there is drugs and smoking.  I have never tried any of those things and I know that I never will, so I don’t understand why people would want to put themselves through that. 

There are some people who have turned to alcohol because something has happened in their life and then they become dependent on that beer that they hold in their hand. How can someone’s life just turn upside down so fast?

We all have trials and we go through them differently, some people get help from treatment centers, or their family members if they are willing to help.  Others learn to deal with what they have been dealt don’t let it change who they are and then there are others who let it drag them down until there is nothing left to cling too.  We each need to remember that there is always someone around that loves us and wants to help us. 

Being in Salt Lake City I was a little scared.  I am use to this little LDS bubble that I know will protect me.  How am I suppose to be able to protect myself when I don’t know what I am against.  I thought that a bubble is what I needed but what I really needed to know was that I have the power to use what I already know against what is out there in this world that is trying to bring us down.

Even though everyone is different not just in appearance but also in what has made them into who they are today, we can all show that we are strong and able to make it through anything that we put our minds too!!!