LPT request: is 30 young enough to turn life around after a brutal meth addiction?

I was heavily into alcohol and drugs ever since I was a teenager and I was pretty much nothing but a fuck up that whole time. I was doing nothing but surviving.

I ended up having two really bad things happen one right after the other that I was forced to put all my energy into and when that was over I was mentally and emotionally depleted.

As a response, I decided I needed a change of scenery and I felt that an adventure would help shake me out of this deep hole that I was in. So, I sold everything I owned except for my motorcycle and camping gear and I spent a summer riding my motorcycle from the East Coast to the west coast.

I found a job and and apartment in San Diego but it wasn't long before I started falling into my old ways but with new people. It was at that point that I realized that no matter where I go, there I am. It wasn't the people or the scenery that were causing my problems, it was me, it was all me.

I traded my bike for a station wagon and I ended up traveling back to the east coast with a whole new outlook on life. I was about 32 years old at this point.

I self-studied on computers and programming while working in a fabrication shop and I applied for computer type jobs where I would have to change my clothes in the car and go to interviews on my lunch hour.

Eventually I got a great opportunity as an applications engineer for software related to the industry I was working in. After I got my shit together, I bought a house, met a woman, got married, and had a daughter who is now 21.

My whole career had taken off from there and now I'm making great money as a programmer.

30 years old is a perfect time to make the change and it's nowhere's near too late. I don't know why your sister would say that unless she has some ulterior motive to keep you down. Funny enough, my sister used to and still does say the same negative, hurtful things to me. I talk to her as little as possible because every time she calls, she brings me down.

Once you start seeing momentum in your improvement, there will be no stopping you.

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