Reform School Was An Opportunity To Alter The Path I Was On

When I was a youth, I was a ripe candidate for reform school. My family was always extremely loving to me when I was growing up, but I still ended up in trouble. But growing up where I did in a small town in Missouri, it’s hard not to get bored and get into trouble. Everybody drinks where I hail from; it’s part of the lifestyle. From the moment I entered high school, I spent my weekends with a cool beer in my hand.

Things were not too terrible while I was only drinking beer, but when I was about sixteen, I found myself hitting the hard stuff. It was my neighbor, Kip who got me drunk on whiskey for the first time when he kindly offered me his flask. I ended up really hammered and passed out under a table when I spent the rest of the night. I should have taken some time to re-evaluate my life and my habits, but I didn’t.

Whiskey was only the beginning, as soon enough I wasn’t seen on weekends without a bottle of sherry in my hand. Then, I started imbibing during the week, even showing up at school a couple times drunk. My family tried to get me to speak to them about what was going on, but I ignored their attempts to help because they wanted to send me to reform school.

As bad as it was, though, booze was the least of my difficulties. At a different party about a year after I had started drinking hard liquor, someone, I don’t even remember who, brought some cocaine. I was an idiot because I didn’t stop to consider my actions. My spare time consisted of eating, drinking, and trying to get a hold of drugs. I was a wreck, and I can barely remember what life was like back then.

I was even able to finish my high school studies and apply to college. I fit right in with the hard partying crowd and was drunk nearly every night. College was a different game than high school and I was shortly kicked out. I was in terribly bad condition, and my life was really at rock bottom. I was in such bad shape that everyone I knew got together for an intervention that put me in my place and triggered my transformation. Now, after all this drama, I am free from drugs and alcohol. I look back with a lot of regrets and one of the biggest is that I didn’t take the chance to go to a therapeutic boarding school when it was suggested to me.

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