An Extremely Young Couple Appraises Their Heavy Drinking And Their Short And Long Range Hopes, Aspirations, And Dreams
Frank and Linda have been in a dating relationship for six years. They met while taking the same entrepreneurship class at a medium size, rural, Church affiliated liberal arts college located in the Western part of the United States. While they were in actual fact good pals at first, they finally started dating when they were in their first year of college.
Because both of them came from very conventional backgrounds, neither one of them drank much social drinking stage when they first began dating. As the time progressed, however, they began to go to more keg parties, sorority and fraternity parties, happy hours, and football bashes. As a result, they in a step-by-step fashion began to drink more the longer they interacted with one another.
After they graduated from college, they both found employment in a large city that was around eighty miles from their undergraduate college. Then they decided to move into the same apartment with one another.
With any major alteration in an individual's life there is usually something that produces the specific change in question. For Frank and Linda the notion of buying a new house and having children was this "change agent." Stated simply, for the first time in their lives, Frank and Linda started to reflect on their excessive and irresponsible drinking and the long term adverse effects of alcohol on their health. As an illustration, they started to wonder if they would ever experience an alcohol overdose due to their irresponsible and hazardous drinking.
Would their heavy and irresponsible drinking negatively affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending a large percentage of their money on drinking if they were to start saving for a new house?
From a different perspective, even though neither one of them ever experienced alcohol poisoning, received a DWI arrest, or experienced alcohol poisoning symptoms, they understood that their irresponsible and hazardous drinking was becoming a problem that they could not overlook anymore. All of these queries unmistakably pointed to the same conclusion, namely that Frank and Linda needed to be more aware that they couldn't maintain their hazardous and irresponsible drinking if their hopes, dreams, and plans were to be attained.
Once they got to this conclusion, they advised their drinking pals about their their marital plans, about their goal of buying or building a new house, and about their plans to start a family. They also told their drinking pals that they still wanted to pal around with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this point forward so that they could start to realize their future dreams, plans, and hopes.
Much to their wonder, all of their pals expressed relief because they too had been deliberating on their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too frequently focused on drinking. They also felt that they would have to change drastically if they were to become more responsible and manifest more thoughtfulness for their careers, their goals, and for their health in the next twenty or twenty-five years.
After their heart-to-heart chat with their pals about their hopes, plans, and dreams, Linda and Frank in effect started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their pals. The main reason for this was the fact that all of them had the same mentality regarding their heavy and hazardous drinking and their relatively short and long-term aspirations, goals, and plans.