Some people use the mantra “Live like there’s no tomorrow” as 
an excuse for binge drinking, smoking weed or shooting up heroin.
But, do they really think there will be no tomorrow?
Because the way some people have been acting at LHS lately has really got me thinking that people either don’t understand the concept of tomorrow or simply don’t care about their future.
You’ve read all of the news articles about some of our classmates who’ve made some shortsighted choices, and those choices, like shooting heroin or getting high off of pain medications or buying weed or getting drunk then driving, didn’t payoff in the long run.
Their choices didn’t go away next morning.
In fact, two of them didn’t have a next morning.
One of them woke up the next morning in the hospital.
Another woke up in a wheelchair.
It seems that some people don’t understand that every time they drink themselves silly they’re screwing themselves over in the long run, and what may seen harmless fun in the present could be the reason they didn’t get into their dream school or land that high paying job.
They don’t understand that life is more than one weekend.
The choices that you make one Friday night does affect your Saturday morning, not to mention your Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
A choice is not like a hangover.
It doesn’t go away.
Ever.
Sure, most of the time these people get plastered or high out of their minds, they end up okay the next morning. However, much like there’s a chance that there won’t be a tomorrow, there’s a chance that any of them could get arrested for underage drinking. Or possession of marijuana Or for DUI manslaughter.
Or there’s a chance one of them won’t wake up at all because he drove his car into a 100-year-old oak tree after he decided he’d be fine driving home after six beers.
If I were you, I wouldn’t put your money against tomorrow, because unlike humans, tomorrow has never died.
photo by Matt Kalish