Glad parents taught me tough love

I am glad my parents taught me tough love and it worked. I changed when I turned 13 hanging around the wrong crowd. I was hanging around people that were doing drugs and drinking heading in the wrong direction. I tried some and did not like. Age 17, they signed me up for a program for troubled teens to see where I was heading giving me a wake up call. It was prison and was hell with no freedom. Had female prisoners get in my face yelling at me. Good thing was one of them had a talk with me. Said she was like me and led her go in the wrong way also. Did say I had a life ahead of me and I was not being a positive role model for my younger sisters. Saw she was right and changed my ways. My parents saw I got the wake up call making better choices and the trust came back. One was deciding to enlist in the military when I was 18. Talked to other veterans that were in the same path I was in. Said it changed their lives around and will possibly do it with mine. Right after I turned 18, talked to a Marines recruiter whom gave me time. I enlisted and it was a decision I do not regret to this day heading my life in the right direction doing 10 years.

 

Excellent.

 

Family always

Mzzls