I honestly don’t even understand how some people can be so stupid. Before I come off as overly offensive, I will justify where my rant is coming from. Drinking and driving. It is at the very top of the list of the stupidest things a person can do. It’s right up there with playing freeze-tag on the highway or lighting up matches during a downpour of gasoline.
I feel redundant even trying to explain why this action is stupid because it seems like the most obvious thing in the world. Don’t operate an automobile when you are considered impaired because you have a relatively high chance of harming or even killing others or yourself. Duh. Could anything be more obvious? I don’t think so, but apparently there is still confusion because people continue to drink and drive, taking the lives of thousands each year.
Not only are these people stupid, but also selfish. They don’t take any consequences of their actions into consideration and if they do, then they are soulless people. One night of driving drunk can destroy the lives of many good and innocent people. And once you do it, it can’t be undone. The chain of people that this kind of stupidity affects in endless. And what was it all for? What can be taken away from driving drunk that could ever be a good thing? I don’t understand.

If someone is killed by a drunk driver, there is no other way to classify it than murder, because it is death that is undoubtedly preventable. It’s easy to forget that dry statistics represent real people and real lives- a dad that could have still been there to watch his kids grow up or a young woman with an entire life ahead of her. Ruining these people’s unwritten futures, causing never-ending torment and heartbreak for their family and loved ones, and bestowing guilt upon yourself for all of eternity… all for what? Because you wanted to get drunk with your friends at a party and thought it would be okay to drive home? Think before you destroy the lives of others. Don’t be stupid.

This story is written in honor of Autumn Soyka and all others lost to drinking and driving.