Scary things.........

You know living in a small town, it has its good points and its bad points. One of the most popular quotes people use when they want to move to a small town is " Its a safe place to raise my children" well yes and no. Sure you move here have kids, you are able to let them go outside and play, and ect. But what happends when they start highschool? Is it safe anymore? I look around all the time and the kids I knew in elementry school aren't the kids I know anymore. The kids that used to play tetherball, hopscotch, jumprope, ect..are gone. Now they are doing drugs and sleeping around. you know in about 3 years about 9 kids died. Crazy? I know right! We had drug over doese, and car crashes due to speeding. one kid died of natural causes and one kid died by a train accident. I went to the fair this weekend. and they have a thing called the babycontest. So I got my pastor's wife Heather , to enter their 5 month daughter Alexia in to it. She won the cutest onezie and diper--yes ladies and gentalman we have our new underware model! :) But the baby who got 3rd place scared me. Not that the baby was scary it was the mother. The mother is my age. I never really talked to her, but I remember she was in my class in elementry school. And now here she was holding her daughter at the cutest baby contest. So many girls in my school drop out cause they got pregant. I hear so many girls talking about who they slept with over the weekend. I look at the way they are dressed, and Im like PUT SOMETHING ON PLEASE! I hear about how they got stoned this weekend. not just girls but guys too. I used to wonder why I never really fit in with my highschool. But I understand now. For fun these Kids drink, smoke, have sex, ect. It makes me sad to know that most of these kids will be stuck in Red Oak for the rest of their lives.