ANOTHER WASTED YOUTH BECAUSE OF DRUGS!

This piece will be a little different from the usual.

A personal friend of mine has just informed me that he has just confined his son to a rehabilitation center for illegal drug users. The boy confessed his addiction but he has already been kicked out of his university, lost more than 20 pounds and disowned and abandoned by friends.

After consoling my friend, I couldn’t help saying to myself: “Another wasted youth.” 

To all users of illegal drugs:

You have NOTHNG TO GAIN, and EVERYTHING TO LOSE, in taking illegal drugs.

Your money, your future, your career or even your freedom and most of all your LIFE! Only the pusher or the drug trafficker will benefit from your being a user of, or addict to illegal drugs!

Illegal drugs won’t make you rich, or richer.

It doesn’t make you handsomer or prettier. It won’t make you smarter, stronger or sexier. It won’t help you get higher grades in school or a promotion at work.

Neither will it make you popular to members of the opposite sex, or to your classmates or co-workers or neighbors. Or open doors to success or fane and fortune for you.

Ask yourself a million times if you want to: what good can you get out of illegal drugs? Then, grab and read EVERY REFERENCE MATERIAL you can think of and a thousand to one, YOU WON’T FIND ANY.

If you’ll say that illegal drugs help you forget your problems and your sorrows, It DOESN’T SOLVE anything either.

Instead, you’ll be avoided like a plague or a known vicious CRIMINAL by everyone they know. Worse, some are even abandoned by their own families or relatives.

Non-users will never want to be friends or be identified with drug dependents..

NO SCHOOL OR COMPANY will keep an illegal drug user once he or she is uncovered.  Regardless of how intelligent or how good and productive that dependent is.

A son of one of my cousins was already the general manager of the forwarding firm he was working in when he got into illegal drugs. He was only in his late 30s then.

I can’t remember the reason why.

But I do remember that he got hooked on shabu, as in, and was IMMEDIATELY FIRED by his boss upon discovery of his addiction. His mother, wife and siblings tried everything to rehabilitate him.

But before they succeeded, he had already lost his savings and his home to shabu.

There are a lot of alternatives when anyone is being tempted to try illegal drugs.. Just ask your parents, teacehrs, relatives, spiritual adviser or anybody really close to you. 

If anyone is interested, I can give some personal suggestions.

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From our friends:

CORONA’S ATENEO STINT AND HIS FAMILY’S MEANS!

LILIAN PRESTOZA

The prosecutors and the senator-judges on the impeachment case of the CJ are in cahoots to make sure that he is removed from office. They will do anything and everything . It is sad because the family suffers the humiliation their Dad has to endure. I sympathize truly. The charge insinuating that the CJ did not have the means to study in Ateneo as well as his daughter’s salary is not enough to buy a house in the US are dirty tactics these desperate guys are employing. No wonder, CJ Corona is fighting against all odds to clear his name and his family. He is hurting. To Mrs. Corona, Ma'am ,my support.

ISABEL JUICO of Jacksonville , Florida , USA

Yes, Boyet, inspiring...short and direct to the point! Will the yellow comprehend this?

CONSOLACION LAPE

If that is true...to drag CJ's father and all other siblings into this fray would only mean one thing -- the prosecution is so desperate they know an acquittal is forthcoming, thus they are trying to malign the family to cast disrespect and dishonor. That is AGAINST THE LAW, AND ABSOLUTELY UNCHRISTIAN! The fishing expedition is now beyond understanding!

LOLITA BELEN of Cabuyao, :Laguna

If it's DIRT they want, then let's THROW MORE DIRT AT THEM!

NES TRINIDAD

During the ‘70s, I remember the tuition for engineering at UP diliman was P200 per semester while in De la Salle it was about P1000. Keep in mind that  tuition  in UP was government  subsidized - for every peso from the parents, the government put in about P4. Tuition increases of private schools was highly regulated.

JIMMY PRESTO

Boyet, these are words I want to hear/read. We hope to slowly make everyone with the slightest ability to think, understand and see the light ASAP.

FE ALBURO

Kahit saang university panagtapos si Corona, it’s none of their business.

DELIA SANIDAD

The prosecution, thru Raissa Robles, is now on a desperate last-ditch effort to demonize the Corona family. But will not have or get what they are aiming for. The CJ will be acquitted.

LUZ IMELDA MACARAEG of Moncada, Tarlac

There are some hoodlums-in-robe contaminating the sanctity of the judiciary. Grossly disgusting!

MASTERFUL DECEIT

Another impertinent and malicious issue being thrown at Corona . If they really want mud, why don't they try to find out why Carpio's father was labeled as "undesirable" by the BIR, where he also worked?

LETTY ARCILLA

Iisa ang aming pananaw ni Sir Boyet, kaya lahat ng kanyang mga sinusulat ay like na like at love na love ko!

CHRISTINE PORCIUNCULA of Valenzuela City

Wala na kasi silang maisip na maibabatong masamang issue kay CJ kaya ultimo magulang niya eh dinadamay nila sa kalokohan nila.

MELVYN DELA CRUZ JR.

Answer to the dirty tricks of liars and magicians

ERNEST CHUA

Until somebody goes to jail for corruption, not a scapegoat, nothing will really change

AINA REYES

Kung ang isang Chief Justice ay pinagmumukhang pulubi ng administrasyon ng non-performing specie ng Malacanang, ano kaya ang tingin ni Noynoy sa tulad natin na karaniwang mamamayan?

BENIGOMO AKONO

Di ba mahilig sila sa fake evidences? Kaya gumagawa sila ng kung anong fake information para maibato kay CJ Corona

JULIUS ILAGAN

 Wala lang talaga sila maibato kay CJ Corona,

CASIANO MAYOR

Bakit naging apologist ka na ni Corona?

KENSI BLYE

As usual, the Yellow Zombies would never talk about ISSUES and would never STAY IN TOPIC. If they hate someone, they immediately resort to DIRTY TACTICS - Black Propaganda; Demolition Job; Character Assassination; Personality Attacks; Attacks on the Family; and so on and so forth. Why? It is because they will resort to ANY MEANS necessary to achieve their sinister and fiendish goals. Why FOCUS on acts of CJ Corona BEFORE he became Chief Justice. I mean, he's being tried as a Chief Justice - not in his previous positions in different Government Agencies.

EVIL SCHEME BEHIND PNOY’S PRIVATIZATION BID!

JOSE LUIS LEGARDA

The so called tuwid na daan daw is the easy way out which means wash your hands from responsibility and pass the burden to the public.

BIEN BALAJADIA of Marikina City

When presenting solutions, don't create more problems. Don't lie to the public. This is not 1986.

EMMANUEL CEZAR of Iloilo City, Iloilo

The only people who can afford to invest in this privatization bullshit are his relatives or their business partners. 30