My Will to Resist-Ethan Brown

When I was a young boy I was instantly told that driving and alcohol don't mix. To me this is a very important lesson as well as my family. My mom grew up in a family of 6 and she was the youngest of the 4 kids. When her oldest sister was in college, she went to a party like most college students do. In her so called “carpool” there was a designated driver but as most stories these days go, the driver drank. A lot. When they got in the car to ride back to their house or dorm, the other 4 people in the car were not informed that the driver was drunk by any means. They were about halfway to their destination when they got into a horrific crash. The driver, passenger and person sitting in the middle of the backseat were all killed. My aunt Suzy was critically injured as she was sitting on the left in the back seat and was stopped by the seat in front of her. She spent the next 6 months of her life in the hospital as well as her friend who was sitting on the right side of the car. My mother was home alone for almost a month and was affected very much by this. To this day, I am still reminded of this story to teach me and my brother that you should never drink and drive. My aunt still has the glass that was embedded in her arm during the crash, inside of her arm. I think that this story is a great lesson to kids to stay out of trouble because it shows possibly the worst consequence there is to drinking and/or driving. I had set a goal to make it through college completely without trying a single bit of alcohol a while ago and am still planning to stick to it.