It's time to change.

I'm 17 years young. 4 months away from turning 18, less than a month away from court, and 6 months until graduation.

I have the credit average of a sophmore in my senior year. i still need about 60-70 credits to graduate in june. the first half of the year is over, with only 5 credits under my belt. i can thank that to doing my own thing everyday and not focusing on what i'm going to NEED before im kicked out of this house. smoking and playing video games everyday isn't going to cut it.

it's truly time to change my lifestyle. i love smoking, i love my friends and i love being happy, thats basically the only things i have in life. i'm realising it SHOULD be everyone's way of life, unfortunatly we have to live under the rules of "god", which in this country, is the government.

i have to focus on the things i want DONE before i start living on my own. i need to get clean before i go to court. and i need to stop smoking and slacking off.

i'm an idiot for not realizing this before.
i'm not going to stop comming to these forums because you guys are awesome. but i need to change my ways, and looking forward to next time i get to smoke is screwing me up.

by that, i promise hipforums and myself, that i wont take one puff until i feel i'm on track again. i dug myself into a canyon, now i need to climb back out.

i hope this post will influence some of you that are way behind in school like i am, to realize whats actually taking up your 'time' to do homework and get caught up.

 

More power to you. I wish you success in amassing your credits and in outlining a plan for the next few years.

 

yeah man, i always saw you as a cool figure here and didnt even suspect u were slackin on school work. anyway its probably for the best for the time being. me, i smoke sometimes, but i always show up in college, get high grades and basicly im top of my class. im trying to make college compensate for the fact that i completely failed school

 

My grades weren't so great this year so I basically quit smoking for a while. After two months my grades were almost worse and I was usually pissed off or depressed. In the last couple weeks I've started smoking again and my mood is better. We'll see how my grades are second semester but I suspect I'll need a miracle or 100mg of adderoll to focus.

 

I thought you were going to say your leaving the forums also

 

You need to just tell yourself that until you graduate no drugs videogames or alchol. I needed to get back on track so I stopped smoking for 3 months and didnt watch any tv. Now im on track to graduate a year early. Just kick yourself in the ass, and realize that you have the rest of your life to enjoy yourself, but for the next year or however long its going to take to graduate you need to just cut all that shit out and work.

 

I love how everyone decides to leave at once.

 

He's not leaving.

 

Yea but like 2 people have left us in the past day.

 

lol isn't that exactly what he did?

 

^yeah, i guess it is. I was just trying to give him some encouragment, and let him know, that it deffently will work and is the right thing to do.

 

yeah i remember reading your posts like two years ago. definitely a great contributing member

well i think thats a pretty good idea if those things are distracting you from whatever you need to get done.

also good luck, because it may not be easy to completely quit after years of habit

 

thanks guys. it really is going to be hard
i haven't smoked all day and all i want right now is a fat bong rip lol

 

School is WAAAAAYYY more important. You should never let your "habits" or your "negative enjoyments" get in your way of what is going to make life really good. An education is necessary. I'm so proud that you've decided to work on school a little more. It just goes to show that not all us potheads are morons. We do know what is going on in the world. But hey, make a plan, say that on your graduation night you will toke up as hard as you can!!! That way you have a goal in mind and are able to reward yourself. Good luck.

 

unfortunately, the ones we'd like to leave won't.

 

Good job with the motivation! School can VERY easy as long as you make sure to keep your grades above C's and you are sneaky. If you just listen to what your teacher says and don't zone out, it IS possible to get an A on every test without doing homework and taking any notes, at least in my case. This year I do no homework and I always get credit for doing it because I can work my way around it. School is merely a test and a temporary prison term, but you have to graduate for added security in life and the ability to hold a 'normal' job in your life.

 

haha 4 real

 

Seems to be a lot of that going around..

But you know whats best for you.
And I applaud your decision.

Best of luck to you 40!!