I always have and always will hold fast to my opinion that a person's body is their's and they should have the right to do with it what they please. Whether that means getting tattoos, piercings, smoking, doing drugs, drinking, ect. It's your body, do what you want with it and be willing to accept the consequences.

However, I always held the opinion that others have the right to not do these things to their bodies. Do I respect that? Yes. If someone asks me to please not smoke in their presance, I put out my cigarette, because their body is theirs and they have that right. I don't have the right to force them to have breathing trouble or to be subjected to the possiblity of cancer from my second hand smoke. However, I will go elsewhere, and that may keep me away.

I will admit straight out right now, yes, I have done my own drug experimenting. I was never, by any stretch of the imagination, a pothead. I used to smoke once or twice a week. I have also tried Acid, and a few other things. But now I am off of drugs. And having attempted to quit pot in the past and failed, I plan to succeed this time. I will remain pot free.

However, if you smoke and have a friend that is quitting, do you not respect their wishes that you go elsewhere to spark up a smoke? I do. So why can some of my friends not wait until they go home from being with me to get high? I don't want it around me, and just because I live away from my folks does not make my house a drug and sex pad. Both of which they have engaged in in this place. And even if they can't wait, why can they not refrain from trying to get me to join them. They remind me that I used to do it, too, to which I remind them that "used to" is the operative word in that statement.

Why is it so hard for them to grasp that I quit and do not plan to go back?

And to top it all off, I figured out tonight that I may have to leave Empty Void (my band) before it even gets started. I will, probably, be the only one in the band who does not do drugs (seeing as ------- and his friends have moved up to E and Acid). They also plan on having that pothead image for the band, and being the only one who doesn't smoke and will be job hunting to start a career in about a year, (I also do not want to have a record for guilt by association) I do not want that image. Considering I do not want to be put on his level. He has a horrid memory and reminds me of Slater from the movie Dazed and Confused. I don't want people thinking I am the same way he is.

Anyway, people can do what they want in their spare time, and I will not begrudge anyone their vices, but respect other people's wishes and other people's rights.