SUNDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2023

I don’t want to moan because I have been working really hard to focus on the positive at all times and I do think I’m making progress but once again I find myself despairing at how quickly the weekend slips away. I just never seem to have a spare minute and I never seem to achieve a fraction of what I want to get done.   If time is indeed a social construct – I wish someone would teach me how to construct some!

MY WHY

So, back to the kids…. Maybe they won’t get sucked into drinking alcohol to change the way they feel and maybe they do understand, far better than I ever did, why it is not a good idea to drink to excess, but I’m not naïve enough to believe they’re not going to drink.  It seems a bit mean to wish them to be abstinent teenagers and to miss out on all the craziness of student drinking that I enjoyed while my parents looked on indulgently but I fear that I’m going to struggle to be “cool mum”, knowing all that I know, both from what I’ve read and what I’ve experienced.  I don’t deny that drinking can be a lot of fun but it also leads to reckless behaviour and reckless behaviour can lead to all sorts of terrible consequences.  I’ve certainly done things I would never have done and said things I would never have said, had I not been under the influence of alcohol.  Thankfully, I have survived unscathed but that is definitely down to good luck, rather than good judgement.  Not everyone is so lucky – lives can change forever as a result of reckless, drunken behaviour.  It just doesn’t bear thinking about – especially for a mum. 

Theme Tune: All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers