Choices

I've always known that the choices we make have consequences, and over the past few weeks I've been realizing more and more how your choices can not only have an effect on yourself, but they can effect everybody around you. Good or bad. In church I always get the lesson of the personal joy and pain you go through when you make a decision. In young women's lessons, they always briefly touch on how your choices can have an influence on your friends and family, and how your friends can have an influence on you. But what finally hit me today isn't completely about influences. Just the choice somebody made, and the effect it's having/will have (not many people know about it yet). It has now effected everybody this person ever knew and many people this person has never met. I can't say I can't believe it happened, because I knew this person and knew of this person's ...view on standards. So I can't say I never would have expected it to come from this person, but now that it has, it's quite a shock. I do believe it happened, and even though I so wish I could say that I never would have expected it, and that this person is too good to do something like that, I can't. This person is a truely amazing person, extremely smart and wonderfully nice, considerate, and a VERY hard worker. But when it comes down to choices and what this person decided to do.. I'm very ashamed. And scared. For this friend.


I know I NEVER will.. but please.
Don't drink and drive.