Here's to Life

Dear FutureMe, What a life! First Childhood. Not much I can say about that, except that I think I was happy up until about 6th grade. Then everything seemed to start going wrong. I could not stay out of trouble. Nothing serious but enough to make my parents unhappy and that made me unhappy. Could not seem to find any positive friends, started running with the kids that got in trouble like myself. Started smoking and stealing. Watched too much TV. Wanted a girlfriend but none of the girls I liked, liked me. I always wanted the best looking girls and they didn't feel the same. High School was no better. The President got killed and my parents were republicans so they didn't even care. Then Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Kent State, Vietnam. The BOMB.....the whole world seemed to be going down the toilet. My parents said Jesus would come soon anyway, so why go to college. Drugs. First the booze then the dope. Weed, Speed, Pills, Thrills.....and then COCAINE.....GOD I LOVED THAT STUFF....20 years of that shit....and then I am 40 years old. REHAB.......first real job....SUCCESS...I am good at it.....Marriage....BABY SON.....NUMBER TWO SON....God is good...BABY GIRL...First Home....WORK, WORK, WORK. Prostate CaNcer. Dad killed by Drunk Driver...New Job....another success...kids growing up....55 years old and I still don't know what the end to this story will be. But Here's to Life. Steve