Salt Lake Community College Student Newspapers | 1998-09-15 | Page 3 | The Human Side: What We Want and What We Receive

The Human Side What We Want and What We Receive By Dee Dee Lobato Prevention Specialist Drug Alcohol Education What we want and what we get seems so simple and most people want relatively the same thing As students we want to get an education education education tion have fun create memories have good friends be he in a relationship relationship relationship relation relation- ship and feel good about ourselves These things do not happen automatically automatically automatically auto auto- instead we make conscious conscious conscious con con- choices designed to get us what we want Sometimes the choices we make especially around alcohol and other drugs get us exactly what we dont don't want That's Thais when we know we have to adapt our behavior behavior behavior when our choices hurt our aca aca- Or when our choices result in events that arent aren't fun or memories memories memories memo memo- ries that are not fond If friendships and relationships are important to us and our choices have put a strain on these parts of our lives then we need to evaluate our choices to see if we need to adapt them This is why confrontation confrontation tion is such a positive thing Many times when the Alco Alco- hol Drug Program tries to educate people the response we get is I know that and it is usually true truc r A a 00 d ti r Most people know they shouldn't drink and drive most people know the hazards of unprotected sex Yet every week on our campus we see there is a difference between what we know and what we do The consequences consequences con con- sequences of one day of being stupid stupid stupid stu stu- stu- stu pid can haunt a person friends and a community for a long time We are arc worth taking laking care of our our- selves When we fall for peer pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure or when we let other people talk us into doing things we appear to be someone other than who we are When this happens we need to challenge ourselves recognizing that we are arc still growing and need improvement Letting it strengthen our resolve to move forward When we start getting gelling what we want when we start matching what we know with what we do and when we decide who we truly want ant antto to be we have given ourselves insight c to what we wc need ussa to w. w do 1