part 2

I remember reading about this huge fire that keeps spreading destroying almost two thousand homes. I did not really pay attention to this devastating news until I read it was in Malibu, San diego, and Santa Barbara which is near where I live and basically all my friends from home live and go to school. The fact that I did not really care until I found out it affected me really scared me and made me rethink how I take things in. I should try to read the paper and I got up from my comfy share grabbed the paper and wiped off the leftover dirty napkins. I tried to read about elections and political issues but found myself grazing through the text. I didn’t stop until something caught my eye.
Starting this September, Arizona passed the law that a if you are charged with a first offense of driving under the influence you will immediately be sent to 30 days in jail. This law was made to try and lower the drunk driving rate and decrease the number of accidents, injuries, and death each year. I recalled this past Saturday, my friends and I were being driven home in a taxi and came across a dui check on Euclid and we passed thought, got checked and continued on our way home but it was really surprising to see all the people on the sides of the road that were doing the sobriety test, being put in cuffs, and some already in cuffs loaded into a van. I knew at that moment that bad choices are reactive choices because once you face the consequences of your actions your proactive lifestyle is over and your fate is in the hands of others. I knew the fate of all those people in that police van and that they would be in jail for the next thirty days paying for their mistake. Sitting there by myself, I wanted to call all my friends and tell them but I figured they were in class and that I should probably be in class soon too. I scrunched up my trash, refilled my drink and left the newspaper on the page about the new Arizona law for someone else to read.