Drugs are bad…. (can drive)

So Today i had the Can drive… well more like night time… from 6-8.  This was for our Music Department…. ok so i originally was supposed to do it with this girl in my homeroom… but she changed the time for friday from 6-8 as oppsed for sat from 2-4… and of course she doesn’t tell me this… she justs writes it down…

So i go to CVS and she wasn’t there, but this older guy, for the Drug free for kids organization.. something like that.. he was there… in my head i’m like crap how the hell am i supposed to collect with a guy and a table.. sheesh…  So i’m like to the guy i’m supposed to be collecting for the Music Boosters… and he’s like well i’ve been out here all day so i’ll go call my buddy and have him pick him up… ah i was soo happy…cause that would kinda suck.. all i had was a can for my money.. he had pamplets.. among more pamplets.. and a able obviously, and a sign.. so i’m like yea…

He came back for his call, and he said his buddy Chris would be like an hour.. cause he was at some other station.. So we both said what each of us were doing etc.. then he said that he used to be in that same program for using Heroine… i’m like holy shit… but i thought that a lot this night… he said he did that… He stole somthing to get more Heroine and ended up going to jail for about 2 or 3 years… but he was actually supposed to go for about 20 years.. and of course i think holy shit.. again… The people that sentenced him said that he should do this program for N amount of time and so on and so forth..

It was such an experience, like it may sound weird to people but it really was, talkign to someone who changed their life… “Woke up one day and realized i wasn’t a kid anymore.” I guess people really can change.. if you can be hooked on Heroine for about 15 years.. then finally realize what you’ve done to yourself, that’s a blessing. He said he started wjen he was 12, and ended up getting kicked out of school when he was in 9th grade, from selling it in school.

He was really into Jesus and God, he asked me if i was.. i told him i believed, but didn’t really do anything religious, which i don’t.. But he said that wwhen he was on it in jail, that he was crying and praying to Jesus to come and save him… and he said that he came through and helped him, helped him to where he is today.

We talked about other things but mostly about what had happened to him, which i didn’t mind at all, i kinda wanted to know… we saw 3 strech limos go by, andi’m like i’ve never been in one and he’s like i have.. but he went to them to go to and back from concerts, but then he’d get knocked up in them, so they weren;t really good.. limos, shall i say…

oh yea his name is Jason.. that’s easier to say… So0o Jason  went to a Marilyn Manson concert, and got to meet him for whatever reason, and after that he got Marilyn tatooed on his arm, and was screwed over that night too… SO now he’s changed, not like he used to be and has a tatoo on his arm.

I hope he stays a new man.. because that would prove that people can change, they won’t always be the screwed up crackheads, they just need to wake up…. he said something liek he was 30 and “i’m still acting like a teenager, there’s something wrong with that.” 

He said he had a sister, somewhere around his age, and he jsut recently saw her.. he said she was liek what he used to be too, but she was about 100 pounds and looked like she was giong to die.. i’m like aww…

He asked me my name and he asked it again like a half hour later, so i think he realy wanted to know it, which i was happy. he asked how old i was, what grade, what kinda of grades i had… granted these all weren’t in the order, or even close together.. it was jsut conversation.. Um he asked what kind of things i liked to do, what kind of music…and some way it was brought back to drugs, which was scary, because they are every where..

Music for instance…. some people who are into the really heavy metal/ rock… i dunno   the kind that had suicidle in it… some of those ppl do drugs, and need help but don’t realize it. There are shelters, and programs like everywhere you look, but a lot dont’ realize they need help.

I am so happy for him, and the program that he’s in, it really does save peoples lives… he was about to kill himself at one point in his life, then he went to God…. but i believe, “God” is just there for you to have something to believe in when there;s bnithing… which basically is what a god is.. someone to believe…. so he believed in Jesus, or belived in him self at the right time, just in time to save himself from death… He said that when he was in jail looking towards, 15-20 years in jail that he’s rather be dead.

This ngiht makes me soo happy to be alive, and not addicted to anything, jsut happy to be alive, have family and friends, in case something happens.

I hope who ever reads this will, understand all of this, how important drugs are bad.. Like i’ve never felt strongly on anything before.. like hell we had to write a persuasive speach on something, and i chose something on insects… but now i wish i wrote it on this…. I should have asked Jason to be one of the speakers, in school, that would have been cool…. well to me at least..

Well i must go now.. i hoped someone learned something… good night