A message from me to my mother, regarding my occasional/recreational use of marijuana.
Well, a “pot head” smokes everyday and doesn’t have a life. I, on the other hand, recreationally use marijuana less than a couple times a month to relax from a productive lifestyle or to view literary material in a different perspective (if you didn’t already know, i am an English major). I casually subscribe to this tendency you seem to have a great issue with and have been for some time and my academic evidence immediately diminishes your theory that I have bad memory because if there’s anything you need to uphold a 3.9 gpa, it’s memory. I obviously haven’t been calling you from a jail cell recently, or ever, excluding my vandalism incident when I was 15, so hopefully that somewhat gives me credibility when I contend that I’m not some drug-addicted jail-bird that you frequently compare me to. I would also like to point out that tobacco is a drug, so since you smoke a cigarette once in a while, does that give me enough reason or nerve to label you as a drug addict? The answer is no, obviously. So then why can you call me that and penalize me for it when I’m essentially doing exactly what you are, relaxing and gathering thoughts? Factually speaking, cigarettes are a lot more detrimental to health than weed. The reason behind one being legal and one not is entirely political and economical, do a little research and you’ll find out why, there are great documentaries out there. But enough of this, what really bothers me Is how quick you (or you two, since I’m really not sure how Guillermo feels since we hardly talk about personal matters) are to point out a negative (negative in your opinion) features about your son and immediately act upon it in a punishingly matter and how hesitant you are to acknowledge the good. For example, you probably don’t even know what classes I’m taking, what I got my first college degree in, how I’m doing in school, or how it is at my job. You talk about memory loss and how I’m going to suffer from it because I’m a “drug addict,” well what about your memory? Don’t you think that if I ever suffer from memory loss it would mostly be due to genetics I inherited from you? And what about your jail visits? I think going to jail because of violence is worse then going for weed because in weed at least you’re not hurting anyone else. I think you have these same issues with yourself and you release your tension on other people, sometimes it’s me. I’m going to stop there because this message doesn’t intend to point out wrong things about you, it’s to defend me, using logic and reasoning, something I think all of us need to embrace. If you absolutely need me to leave, just say it in your next response, but first, think hard about it and ask yourself if it’s really in your interest to do so. If you do, I will simply gather some essential things from my room tonight and sleep wherever I have to in order to finish my semester at norco and keep my job at foot locker. I will still have my plans of prospering as an academic individual and achieving great success, with or without your help. You know my position. It is virtuous and progressive. My mind works in satisfying fashions. I am comfortable roaming the earth with many or no aspirations. Either way, life is the experience of a lifetime and letting go of all priorities and backpacking across the world is equally intriguing to me as a professional education, either way, I am very happy. I only subscribe to success because it makes you happy and I believe I owe it to you in return for all that you have done for me. No matter where I go or what I do, I will create happiness and success in my personal opinion of it.
