Curiosity Killed the Cat

3 hours

At Garden Chapel in South San Francisco I got to hear many stories that were heartbreaking and made me once again realized the dangers that are around the youth. Their lives are being put in danger by not paying attention to them closely we are letting them slip away from our hands. A woman came and spoke about her little sister Irma Perez [14] who had a painful death because she was curious in trying ecstasy. She was a very young bright girl who had many ambitious goals but wasn't able to live them because she was influenced to try that drug that eventually led to her death. Young kids need to realize is that they do not know how or what the content of the drugs they are taking has. They do not know how their bodies will react to that drug or alcohol. If they were to go unconscious who knows where they would end up, what would happen to them or if they will end up disappearing. It definitely is a frightening thought to think that there are 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds, 13-year-old, 15-year-olds that smoke marijuana and believe that they cannot overdose, which isnt true. She points out how not even a doctor will be able to tell you how your body will react to react to a drug thats prescribed to you. A teenager cannot say that they've taken a drug and they know how their body will react to it because it may be from the same dealer but coming from different people, the content may isn't the same and their reactions to it is never for sure. I don't think that kids know the dangers of taking these drugs of drinking alcohol. It's not a secret that teenagers are very curious and want to try new things so as parents as friends as guardians should all take it upon ourselves to sit them down and tell them the possibilities that taking a drug can be and that it's real and you cannot take it back. The last thing that that lady's little sister told her friends at that sleepover was, "Tell my sisters and my family I might not make it." By the time her older sister was notified that she was in bad conditions, vomiting several times, seizures she was at a point where she can no longer speak no longer hold herself up she was rushed to who a hospital they didn't have the necessary materials there so they had to send her down to another hospital in where they had the things she needed but by then it was too late. The doctors couldn't do anything because her little sister was brain-dead she couldn't breathe and was connected to machine. The women didn't have to make the decision of disconnecting her little sister because there really wasn't anything the doctors could have done to save her. It's hard to have to accept the fact that your little sister went to a sleepover tried a new drug for the first time and that drug ended her life. What I got from this was that you never know where drugs come from and you never know how your body is going to react to it so it's just best that you do not ever try or experiment with drug. A word of advice for parents: get to know the family, the environment and the kids very well and know what your child is around before you allow them to spend the night. Feel free to check up on them when ever at what ever time at night and have open communication with the parents because you do not want to be in the situation that Irma's older sister was in and come back to a dead body. Lastly advice to kids don't ever hesitate in calling 911 or some that can be of help in a life or death situation. Don't be afraid because you can probably end up saving someone's life or ending it.