Grey Area Drinking

By Skylar Cain, Junior, Greenwood Village, Colorado

 

Your 20’s are a funny time. 

You’ll be pulled in a million directions being told you need to make the most of your youth, more often than not, by destroying it. But nobody ever seems to want to admit that. 

The cold, hard, unignoring truth I crave to know is this; 

drink, 

talk to them, 

drink, 

have sex with them, 

drink, 

You shouldn’t have regrets, 

drink, 

it doesn’t matter, 

drink, 

you need to be out, 

drink, 

you need to get deeper into the crowd, 

keep drinking, 

you need to be having fun, 

keep drinking, 

you don’t need a reason to, 

drink, 

it will seem more fun, 

drink, 

“I can’t remember what happened to me.” 

drink,

“I still can’t remember.” 

drink,

“I still can’t remember. Not even after all this time.”

 

Stop drinking. 

“Wait, why? Why don’t you drink?”