Sergetalks Blog ~ The Official Blog of Serge LeClerc

Death is following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. And that is reality of faith in its most basic understanding – the essence of meaning in the moment of time that is our existence in the coming out of one eternity to go into another and the rational of the how we are to live that moment to the where that we will live that eternity.

A person of character will always consider success a subsequent result of making their first business that of overcoming whatever difficulty lays ahead of them at the moment – and while many others will always think of them of only being lucky for what they achieve, it is in fact the case that they have the virtue of self-belief and the ethic of hard work.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present! This is not a dress rehearsal but rather a singular moment in time between coming out of one eternity before we go into another! And in that moment, some people come into our lives and quickly go while some people become friends, stay a while and leave beautiful footprints on our hearts – and so live and savour every minute.

Men who often fail believe in luck. Men who often succeed believe in cause and effect. The difference between animal and man is that man is the only creation that has free will to make choice rather than operating on instinct as an animal does. Luck then becomes excuse for failure as the moral imperative for success is not complicated. Look. Listen. Choose. Act. It is our greatest blessing and our greatest burden.

Just to recap some of the statistics of the plague of alcohol upon our modern day society and our young people:

Alcohol usage or misuse and alcohol related deaths are the number one killer of that same age bracket;

What numerous people do not realize is that many, if not most of the 50,000 cases of alcohol poisoning in the United States each year do not result from alcohol addiction, but rather from instance of alcohol abuse. Indeed, binge drinking, a type of alcohol abuse, leads to perhaps the majority of alcohol overdose cases that are reported each year. Obviously, many people are not aware of this information or about alcohol facts such as these.

While underage drinking is a factor in nearly in nearly half of all teen automobile crashes, the leading cause of death among teenagers. (more…)

As we looked at the mind meld by the alcohol industry via the media advertisements aim at young people to pick out a brand of beer or alcohol before they are old enough to drink, you must remember to juxtaposition this effort to the reality of the developmental life cycle and the creation of identity – and its importance for this age group. When you do, then the reasons that young people gave for drinking – and for being the heaviest drinking group of young people in our country’s history – give insight to the absolute effectiveness of the campaign by the alcohol industry.

Young men, before the legal age of being able to drink, gave as their number one reason for drinking; that when they got to a party where their friends were at that they didn’t want their friends to think they were a ‘geek’ or a ‘wimp’ – ‘not cool’. I want you think of it this way – young men on the way to manhood, gave as the number one reason that they drink something that taste like ‘horse-pee’ was so that their friends didn’t think they were ‘unmanly’ ……wonder where they got the idea that not drinking was unmanly? And the number one reason that girls gave; well it really was more like two reasons – 87% of teenage girls who drank below the legal age limit to drink said that they drank because their boy friend drank and 83% of the girls who said they didn’t drink had a boy friend who didn’t drink – and for the girls that drank – the highest number of teenage girls who drink in the history of North America – all below the legal age of drinking – they said that they did so because they were unsure of themselves; weren’t sure whether they were outgoing enough, pretty enough, smart enough ….. and that they needed a few drinks to let their real selves come out! (more…)