You are twelve years old and you find a short note from your current self. What does it say?

12 years old - you think you’ve seen all the bad shit life has to offer coming from a broken home with an abusive and alcoholic father beating your mother though the house every time he comes home drunk getting arrested and already been to prison 3/4 times already watching him Being handcuffed at 8 years old you have moved to a different house 3/4 times by now you have seen your mother go back to that scambag a few times with him begging her to come back to the family home with promise he would quit drinking and change and while he did go to rehab 3 different times he always went back to his old ways and the same shit would happen all over again till you were 10 then you moved again and again until you in the current house out in the countryside for your age well here how the next 11 years are gonna go.

14/15 years old - your best friend is gonna get you into smoking weed your gonna love and it for a long time and start drinking things are gonna be good around this time period your gonna be getting into trouble in school and causing some small amount of mischief around your hometown with your friends but to serious and your gonna be a Grade A student with the hope of going to college after you graduate at 18

16/17 years old - at 16 your life going to become a brand new living hell your mental health is going to turn horrendously bad by getting severely depressed which in turn is gonna affect your ADHD very badly at first your gonna try to keep it together but will soon realize it’s becoming impossible you will also learn your mother his landed the household in Financial debt by not keeping up with paying the bills etc and your gonna do the one thing you always do when situations like this get this bad lose control and everything to the fucking ground you will stop going to school you will spiral down a dark path of alcohol and drug use almost daily you will go from a Grade a student to a burnout in just a couple of months you will have a lot of dark thoughts extremely bad problems with anger and rage like you did when you were a kid and you will stop coming home to your mother running away from home in the countryside and running into the town and disappearing to your friends house as he’s doing the same shit as you for days sometimes 2 weeks at a time only coming home when you ran out of ways to get money for drink and drugs you will continue with this Behavior until you turn 18

18/20 years old- your mother going to move house again moving into the town this time your mental stability will be doing a lot better depression will be gone and you’ll mostly recovered by now somehow you graduated school but didn’t get good enough grades to get into college your gonna start becoming a drug dealer and smoke a shit ton of weed daily making easy money until you get arrested by the authorities for weed luckily only small amount so it’s considered possession for personal use only but you’ll get one hell of a wake up and stop dealing your best friend is going to overdose on pills and be in coma for a week in hospital you will go to visit him and hope he’ll be alright but you know ever since he turned 14 and started using drugs he changed slowly becoming more and more scumish over the years but you still care because he’s your best friend since you were 5 years old and he’s always looked out for you.

21/23 years old - after you got arrested and sent to court for the weed luckily only getting a warning you decided to move into with another friend and your finally away from your bad shit crazy family and it feels wonderful for the first time in your life you feel free of burden of dealing with them and there Dysfunctionality you go to the gym start losing weight take up a short term employment course course thing are going pretty good then you get your own place and start partying every weekend drink and drugs constantly flowing the good times seem like they would never end but around this time period your best friend his gotten arrested 4 times with charges ranging from drugs possession with intent to supply weapons charges and obstruction of justice charges aswell he facing possible prison time meanwhile you decided to claim down on the parting and go do a computer course that can get you into college if you put the work in the But before that you go on holiday and you give your key to ur apartment to ur best friend to keep look out on as its situated in a sketchy area but holiday you find out he threw a house party in there you find out from another friend about when u get back you get ur keys off him and the place is a mess it’s the last time you ever speak to him again you do your course pass it and offer a place in college boom you did it you crazy motherfucker

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