On a Careful Subject
Drugs and alcohol take away years of your life. You'll be made a fool of yourself so long as you engorge yourself with substances. You'll miss out on the best years of your life and spend so much money and time pursuing something that is slowly killing you and robbing you of your potential to live life on your own terms. Your risk of dying explodes. Your brain will be fucked, and you'll need it for the years of work you'll have to do, hopefully at a job that isn't so soul crushing enough that you question the meaning of it all. You'll be a slave to your neurochemistry, chasing a high and mental state of mind that can only be instated by consuming substances and then abruptly crashing down into your reality, which, by the way, doesn't change positively through drug use or drinking in any good way. Your reputation? Ruined. Your trust in others and most importantly yourself? Shattered. You'll be left alone and won't even have yourself as company. Only...