I last saw cocaine in real life when I was 18 yrs old, many, MANY decades ago, but I still remember how it broke when you lined it up.
All of my shitty experiences as a youth only make me strive to be a better parent. I do not want them to go through what I went through. I look back and think "What the hell were my parents thinking?"
At about 17 or 18 I went through a fad of filling my bong with iced Cutty Sark whisky. My dad saw it being depleted and he just told me to replace it. WTF, dad. Your liberal worldview is, in part, what made me gravitate to the right.
There's lots of other stuff too. When I was 25 and very poor I was forced to put my brother's rehab on my CC because he had alienated all other family members. Took me a long time to pay that off. Now he is a leftist, and still a homo. Sad. I feel like I failed.
Anyway, thank you for listening. I owe all here 25 cents for the cathartic therapy you provided.
WOW!! Good for you, brother, on EVERYTHING. I quit ALL of it - cold turkey - back in 2002 (the booze, the smokes, all assorted & sundry 'party favors') and never looked back, nor do I attend AA - just not my bag though it's helped millions (tried for a while and told everyone if I EVER get lung cancer it will be from all those who quit BOOZE chain smoking at the meetings - gee, it's almost like switching addictions!). There wasn't some bright shining light, birds singing, children playing & my life was just filled with Rivers Of Chocolate & Candy Cane trees ever since - i've had some serious knocks since - but I now have the MENTAL and emotional fortitude to not COWARDLY pour myself into a bottle each night to ESCAPE (or snort a line - whatever floats yer boat). I'll say one thing - my sex life kind of dried up once the goggles came off (being the de facto caregiver and the ONLY one among my seven-sibling family to be happily UNMARRIED, I guess I shouldn't complain but still tend to HIDE on Father's Day....).
I last saw cocaine in real life when I was 18 yrs old, many, MANY decades ago, but I still remember how it broke when you lined it up.
All of my shitty experiences as a youth only make me strive to be a better parent. I do not want them to go through what I went through. I look back and think "What the hell were my parents thinking?"
At about 17 or 18 I went through a fad of filling my bong with iced Cutty Sark whisky. My dad saw it being depleted and he just told me to replace it. WTF, dad. Your liberal worldview is, in part, what made me gravitate to the right.
There's lots of other stuff too. When I was 25 and very poor I was forced to put my brother's rehab on my CC because he had alienated all other family members. Took me a long time to pay that off. Now he is a leftist, and still a homo. Sad. I feel like I failed.
Anyway, thank you for listening. I owe all here 25 cents for the cathartic therapy you provided.
WOW!! Good for you, brother, on EVERYTHING. I quit ALL of it - cold turkey - back in 2002 (the booze, the smokes, all assorted & sundry 'party favors') and never looked back, nor do I attend AA - just not my bag though it's helped millions (tried for a while and told everyone if I EVER get lung cancer it will be from all those who quit BOOZE chain smoking at the meetings - gee, it's almost like switching addictions!). There wasn't some bright shining light, birds singing, children playing & my life was just filled with Rivers Of Chocolate & Candy Cane trees ever since - i've had some serious knocks since - but I now have the MENTAL and emotional fortitude to not COWARDLY pour myself into a bottle each night to ESCAPE (or snort a line - whatever floats yer boat). I'll say one thing - my sex life kind of dried up once the goggles came off (being the de facto caregiver and the ONLY one among my seven-sibling family to be happily UNMARRIED, I guess I shouldn't complain but still tend to HIDE on Father's Day....).