I kinda wish I never did drugs.

[masumune]

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[phactor]

I returned back to school at 23, however, I know lots of people that did when they were older. Something just clicked inside me and I realized that A: I could accomplish more with a college degree and B: I will take it much more serious now that I am older.

College was also the start of me slowly starting to moderate myself. Now, lot of stuff happened after I got out, but I am much better now. During college, I was often more then happy with just beer and bud. And when the end of the semester was coming up I would always get really serious and basically stop using anything.

Now, obviously my timing sucked as we hit a depression right when I got out, but I still got a job.

It did take me a long time to convince myself that I deserved good things and nice things to happen to me.

 

[herbavore]

My mom went back to school at 38 to finish her BA. She ended up going all the way and getting her PHD at age 44. I was a high school drop out that went to community college first and then on to University. It took me 4 colleges and about 8 years of casting about trying to figure out what I wanted to do but I will never regret any of it--dropping out and living on the streets was an education. Thinking that I wanted to be a dancer was an education. Thinking that I wanted to be a writer, a psychologist, a geologist, an artist, were all useful to study. In the end, it was art that held me. Life is a process. As long as you stay on the ride, you keep looking out the window. As long as you keep looking out the window you see whole new worlds of possibility swim into view that weren't even there a mile back. Don't get misled into thinking that there is a destination and you missed it. The only way you can blow it IMO is to sleep through the whole ride.

 

[xxsicknessxx]

stay sober about only advise I can give I never got my life back... longest I have been sober in my lfie and in truth my life isn't better just because I quit drugs I feel there are deep character flaws I need to solve before I can get my life back.