Tough Times Ahead: Keeping Your Head UP!

In today’s economic recession, more and more people are becoming jobless, homeless and just plain depressed. Not very good factors when it comes to relapsing, experimenting, and peer pressure. Times like these are what drugs and alcohol strive on. Making you break down and give into the numbness of intoxication.

All of us have to be able to differentiate between good times and bad times. Things will get tough, things will get considerably difficult, and the path to drugs and alcohol are NOT the answer. Without hardship and tuff times, what good are the good times? For every good thing in your life there is always going to be an equal quality negative experience. Some of these negative experiences last longer than others and it makes losing the faith that much easier in the long run.

Keeping your head up and always looking towards the future and good things to come is what can separate you from the rest of our negative based society. The realization that bad times are inevitable and that they can and will be overcome, is the most important factor towards a drug and alcohol free life. No one needs to resort to these measures, they just do because its that easy. But sadly, in the jist of it all it only adds to the problem and creates a cloud of negative energy around yourself which is like a beacon light just calling for more and more negative experiences for yourself. Who wants that??

Surrounding yourself with positive people who share a lust for living life to its fullest is important when trying to make yourself see the light of positivity. Negative people will only bring you down, and the further down you get, the more desperate you are to get out. We are all in this together, so be there for your friends, make them see that YOU are that positive beacon of light and it will rub off on others. Bringing hope and joy to anthers life is what will keep your good times coming and your bad times at a lesser scale. Be the change that you need in your life and the rest will follow behind!