is a small book about a big problem of Humanity -- drug addiction. This drug problem is the world's largest problem right now. Many countries spend billions of dollars (or any currency) to prevent it, which helps some, but not completely. To fight this problem, we must make some solutions. Reverse peer pressure is one of them. The core of this solution seems to be an intelligent revolution. Chemicals of useful knowledge are at the base. There are other ways to conquer the monster. It is the Supreme Being's intelligent influence through those who were selected by Him for this mission. Ann, the main character, is one of them. Her mysterious appearance in front of her brother and sister helps both to resist the temptation of drugs and the hype of such parties as Raves.
I am a semi-retired teacher, published in three Oklahoma newspapers. Having been a teacher, my experience in Education prompts continued interest in reaching children through short stories. My goal is to help children avoid drug addiction by helping them understand their own Brain, giving them the opportunity to realize that all of them are intelligent human beings who can make intelligent decisions not to become involved in the wrong activities.
I had a dream, a lucid dream, which came to me in my REM sleep. I was facing our Creator, whose kindness and divine intelligence were starting and encouraging. My goal is to help young people to resist the temptations such as drugs, and to stay out of the web of wrongdoings such as crime. My dialog with the Superior Being convinced me that I made the right choice and that the Creator himself initiated the idea of my mission. The proof of my choice was presented at the end of my encounter when I was facing Albert Einstein, my beloved scientist. The meaning of my conversation was this: the Ultimate Intelligence is the key answer to our greatest problems, such as drug addiction or crime.
Summary: This story is about peer pressure in reverse -- a high school girl helping her best friend (intelligently) to stop using drugs which once had almost destroyed her life.
Part One
"Collective stupidity and irresponsibility sometimes take people’s lives."
The Moment Of Truth (movie)
Collective irresponsibility is one of the negative features of Peer Pressure. This force could lead to the destruction of a whole generation of young people who are the future of any country, and this country in particular.
The world is poisoned by drugs on a large scale. Forced by peer pressure, juveniles are taking drugs at schools, at wild parties, at friends’ homes, at beer halls, and at many other places. They take them because it is considered "so cool!" But only a few of them use common sense -- thinking about what would happen to the world if all of them took drugs. Really, just think what would happen to the human race if all of them started being "cool"?! What would happen if common sense vanished completely?
And it could happen because of our ignorance of the brain’s functions. The lack of our knowledge of this mysterious circuitry, given us by the Creator (call Him what you wish), has been neglected, at least since the High Tech Revolution. We are moving into the most technologically developed millennium! And we haven’t bothered to ask ourselves the question, "Are our children prepared for the highest skills this technology will require?" Will it even be possible to educate them properly if we have no idea of how to put the "chemicals of knowledge" into their memory banks? And how to keep it there and process it into thoughts which are the building blocks of intelligence? The most difficult task of all is how to teach our children, or any students, to separate good (academic) knowledge from "trashy" and "dangerous" knowledge which destroys intelligence and crush juveniles’ dreams.
The story that I am presenting could happen in any country under certain circumstances. My personal motivation and my major goal are to prove the possibility of turning the negative forces of juvenile peer pressure into positive ones. And it may happen in the coming millennium if we give it enough effort.
Now that brings me to introduce my main character: Ann, a straight-A high school student. She was very sociable and outgoing. Everybody loved her -- students, teachers, the school administrators, and the whole community of the small city of Rocky Mountain. Her parents adored her, though they had two other children who also were good students and (relatively) well reared. The parents loved them, too. But Ann was their pride and joy. She was so beautiful and so funny! She made them laugh even during the worst family crisis!
Ann really had a great sense of humor, which she sometimes used as a defensive shield at school, at home, and among her numerous friends. And she had a lot of friends -- as any "people’s person" would. Her popularity lay in her brilliant personality and her great skill in sports, especially basketball. She was also quite smart by any standard and very generous.
Hope, on the other hand, was a shy and reserved girl, of whom psychologically we might label "a lost child". Among the students of Rocky Mountain High, she was known as a "geek", even "weird". Hope was interested in math and the sciences -- physics, psychology, and physiology -- particularly the development of the human brain -- a subject upon which she collected notes extensively based on her reading. She had read a great deal during her 17 years.
Good reading was in her genes. Her parents read to her from the time she was conceived until she grasped the alphabet and started reading with their help at age two.
