Serious self post here,

I know you said not to reply, but I've been there buddy. I dropped out of high school my junior year to take care of a dying mom, and tried to enlist in the Marine Corps afterwards to get away, but they weren't taking GEDs at the time and I didn't have the money to go to community college for a semester. I ended up forcing myself to go back to school and was suspended a few times for skipping school to give her her meds and cook her food and what not. But I put one foot in front of the other and kept going until I graduated with honors. I ended up getting scholarships to college and went. Once my Junior year hit, I was with a slut I thought I'd spend the rest of my life with until life hit. I had to withdraw to take care of another dying family member and since I wasn't going to be a surgeon anymore, she moved out for her rich abusive ex. I lost school, half of my family, the ex, and what seemed like my entire past and future. I ended up getting deeper in the bottle than Keith Whitley for a year and because of it, undergrad took me five years and my GPA took such a hit that I'm now working full time in the hospital while going to school full time for my masters so that I can apply to medical school while I watch most of my younger finds already halfway through medical school or years into their lives with families, but in the year I was in the bottle, I lost nearly everyone and everything. I took 1100mg of prescription sleeping pills along with a fifth of Jaeger one night and my roommate walked in 36 hours later to find me on the floor in vomit. I was pathetic, but I realized that I was my own worst enemy and I had to change. So I pulled my fucking boots up and got to work. I quit drinking and faced my fears of family and friends that'd watched me do nothing but fuck up, and while everyone looked down for a long time, I did my best to earn that trust. Even though life sucks right now, it's much, much better than it ever was in that bottle. You've got this buddy. Put one foot in front of the other, get clean, and face your fears. I did it, you can too.

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