From time to time, we have a friend who gets too drunk. Visibly stumbling, slurring his or her words, acting like a general fool. I have been this person before. I have been walked home by a friend or sister because I was too drunk. Sometimes though that doesn't happen; no one steps up and walks a sister home or no one tells a sister to stop drinking if she needs to. I know that this happens in all Greek chapters across campus, and I would wager a bet that it happens all around the country.
There was a time just a month ago where I didn't tell a sister to stop drinking when I should have. She told me that she was fine, and I believed her. At least, I wanted to believe her so I could keep talking to this guy I liked at the time. It was selfish, so incredibly selfish, now that I think back on it. I wanted to keep talking to a boy so I let my sister keep drinking herself into oblivion. I figured that she was okay. Turns out, she wasn't. She passed out on the floor. It was at that moment that I realized that I needed to take action immediately. I took her back to my apartment and helped her. But it shouldn't have come to that. I should have walked her home much earlier before any of this had happened.
Due to my selfish ways, I didn't help out a sister until it was absolutely necessary. This is one of the biggest aspects of risk management that we can prevent as a community. If only we looked out for each other to make sure that everyone was okay we could prevent so many awful things like the situation that I described above.
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