Guest Speaker on tuesday...

I really enjoyed listening to the guest speaker we had on Tuesday. He put into light many things that most of us have no idea even existed. He talked about so many different aspects of differenet lifestyles, and some of the photos were very good at showing certain situations of what drug and alcohol addiction can do to a person physically. He talked somewhat on what drugs and alcohol have on your mind, but I don't think that the effects of drugs and alcohol abuse have on your soul and mind, can be shown through pictures, because there are sides to addiction that can not be taught in a classroom, or read from a book, or watched on television, media, etc. The only way is experiencing the struggles of addiction firsthand, and what a struggle it can be on the person and family and friends. Though we will never understand complety why a person feels the way they do, we can have a better understanding through knowledge and learning. Our speaker did an excellent job with this, putting the truth out there, and as sad as many of the things he talked about are very true, but he only showed us a little piece of that life, it can get much much worse. People like Chris help to get the knowledge out there, and to make us look at things in a different way than we maybe did before. I also think that he let us know that hope is possible, and people can change, there is a lot of good in the world as well.