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An Extremely Young Couple Appraises Their Irresponsible Drinking And Their Short And Long Range Dreams, Aspirations, And Goals
Frank and Linda have been dating one another for eight-and-a-half years. They met while taking the same business economics class at a medium size, countryside, Church affiliated liberal arts college located in the Western part of the United States. While they were mostly good pals at first, they finally started dating when they were in their first year of college.
Since both of them came from very strict backgrounds, neither one of them drank much beyond the experimental stage when they first began dating. As the time went by, nonetheless, they began to go to more sorority and fraternity parties, football bashes, happy hours, and keg parties. As a result, they little by little began to drink more the longer they dated.
After they graduated from college, they both got jobs in a relatively large city that was just about seventy miles from their undergraduate college. Then they at long last made up their mind to move into the same apartment with one another.
With any momentous modification in an individual's life there is usually something that elicits the particular alteration in question. For Frank and Linda the thought of buying a new house and having children was this "vehicle for change." Simply put, for the first time in their lives, Linda and Frank started to critically evaluate their hazardous and irresponsible drinking and the long term adverse effects of alcohol on their lives. As an example, they began to wonder if they would ever experience an alcohol overdose due to their abusive and irresponsible drinking.
Would their abusive and excessive drinking adversely 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 realized that their irresponsible and heavy drinking was becoming a problem that they could not "sweep under the rug" any longer. All of these uncertainties undeniably pointed to the same conclusion, namely that Linda and Frank needed to realize that they couldn't continue their irresponsible and heavy drinking if their hopes, aspirations, and dreams were to be fulfilled.
Once they settled upon this conclusion, they told their drinking pals about their their goal of buying or building a new house, about their marital plans, and about their plans to start a family. They also told their drinking friends that they still wanted to pal around with them but that they would be drinking responsibly from this point forward so that they could start realizing their future aspirations, goals, and dreams.
Much to their surprise, all of their pals expressed relief because they too had been reappraising their lives and concluded that their life-styles were totally focused on drinking. They also thought that they would have to change radically if they were to become more responsible and exhibit more thoughtfulness for their careers, their health, and for their aspirations in the next ten or fifteen years.
After their candid discussion with their buddies about their hopes, plans, and dreams, Linda and Frank in actual fact started to have more significant relationships with all of their pals. The key reason for this was the fact that all of them had a similar state of mind regarding their hazardous and heavy drinking and their short and long-term goals, plans, and aspirations.
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