WillyWonka533 said:
You know, most my stoner friends think that about their lives... They're just going to dropout, personally I feel like university will be fun, I'll probably just get stoned then too. If I don't manage to get into one, I'll just form a band, I'm super into music and guitar... At the moment things don't look too well for me... I'm in grade 9 and my grades are okay I suppose.
My two cents: I don't want to work at McDonalds and end up spending all the money I get on marijuana. But at this point, I just want to enjoy my highschool years with my everyday bowl. I'll ask my friends if it was acid or this different type you're mentioning.
You dont want to work at McDs and spend all your money on weed? Then cut back on the weed.
IMO, Doing drugs at 15 is too young, being a daily pot smoker at 15 is too young. If you want to get into a Univ, stop spending half your days stoned, start paying attention in class. Save your pot-smoking for weekends or /after/ you have your homework and studying and other responsabilities dealt with.
I think /most/ kids your age dont have the maturity to use drugs in a responsible way that will minimize the impact it has on their daily life.
In grade 6/7, a bunch of my friends started to smoke pot daily -- they became the biggest bunch of burnout losers I ever met. I simply ditched them as friends -- they are now dropouts working dead end jobs/on welfare last I heard news of them. I live with my partner, have a comfy job, working towards a steady career while finishing off my University education.
I still smoke pot, still trip, still do drugs - but I'm able to do them in such a way that they do not intefer with my current goals.
Its quite possible to have fun at 15 without getting stoned every day. What was I doing when I was your age?
- Going to punk concerts almost every weekend with friends (sober)
- Hacking/Phreaking, learning the ins and outs of computer security (was more of a white-hat hacker)
- Programming and learning new programming languages just for the hell of it
- Reading
- Biking, hiking,
Hanging out with friends, goofing off and being a kid.
A few of my friends smoked pot in highschool, alot of them drank - I didnt do any of that. I was able to have fun with my friends and remain sober. I didnt start drinking untill I was 19 (legal age in Canada) and hell - I hardly even drank much when I was able to legally drink, and didnt touch my first drugs untill I was 21.
University is fun, but its more than 'just a party' -- your paying out your ass to be there (or your parents, or wracking up loads of debt) : dont fuck it up by being high the entire time.
I pretty much fucked up an entire year of Univ by going out and getting fucked up every weekend - failed a few classes, had to drop others so I wouldnt fail them, and almost got kicked out.
I was rolling pretty much every weekend, taking a full course load + working 20-30 hours a week : OUCH!
Last year, I decided to shape up - I still partied and had loads of fun, but also did it in a more responsible way so it wouldnt affect my grades like it did that one year, and must say in the end - I had more fun this year then I had the year before.
Sorry if I sound preachy -- just giving some advice that I learned the hard way.
And, if you insit on remaining a daily pot smoker - cut back, only do it /after/ school and after you got the homework done to get the grades that you need to get into University.
Being a daily potsmoker doesnt need to make you a crhonic burnout/dropout -- you just need to know where your priorities are and what comes first before that daily toke.
Oh, and one last bit of advice
- Develop GOOD study habbits now. Even if you can pull off 80s without paying attention, doing homework or studying - do it anyways and push those 80s to 90s. All through highschool I had an 80+ avg, never did homework, never studied, would skip class all the time -- it was just easy and figured 'hey, I'm getting 80s, why bother trying harder?'
Get to Univ -- I had shit study habits, took me a year or two to figure out how to actually study properly and manage time to do homework. My biggest regret is not getting/learning better study habits in highschool, it would of made my first year or two of Univ sooooo much easier.