Quote (touchmehoe @ Oct 15 2012 12:30am)
my mom use to do drugs n gamble and all this shit
now shes a lawyer lol
kind of leads me to another point. When people are young, especially as young as this girl, they are much more malleable.
And honestly, much more stupid. People do shit, they fuck up, they learn. Or they don't like how they're living their life, and they change it. I worked for the Missouri Department of Corrections for awhile, and worked specifically with probationers and parolees. Out of everyone that came in there, 95% of them said they wanted to change. Out of that 95%, about 10% legitimately did/made a conscious effort to do so. As you get older, shit changes, and instead of pushing the people that are struggling even further down for whatever reason (sick humor? self-insecurities? to get a reaction out of people?), people should be offering a hand to help them back up and welcome them into a life where they don't have to be living as shitty of a life (compared to "normal" standards) as they used to be. Once we start developing that mindset, we'll be in a lot better shape. Sadly I don't see it happening anytime soon.