I always make sure that I have at least a 3.5 gpa, otherwise I lay off the drugs.
[QUOTE=sam.clarke;20385675]Which is true, they don't if you don't let them. But they can.
Before I start this thread I want to make it clear that I'm not anti-drugs and I still have a joint or a line every now and then.
It all started in June, when I met my girlfriend. I was smoking weed nearly every day, sniffing coke as well as doing pills and mandy most other weekends and spending a lot of my time/money on drugs, I even got arrested for posession of coke but through some miracle was let off and charged with drug use in a public place and had no permanent record. I had a job which I was never late fore, albeit a dead-end job, a dogsbody (temping whilst looking for a new job in IT system support) and I did have the motivation to go to the gym two or three times a week. So to sum up, I was doing a lot of drugs but still getting on with my life, just cruising by comfortably, not really wanting to push myself.
Anyway, now you have a bit of background I'll move on. I was with my girlfriend and still hitting the drugs pretty hard, it was to be expected over the summer with all the festivals and holidays, she didn't mind too much but I could tell she was starting to tire of me being stoned when she called at nights, we couldn't have a proper chat and I seemed detatched from her some days when I didn't have any drugs. She's not anti-drugs either... As I said, we still sometimes share a joint or get a gram for a night out.
After a couple of months I decided I'd clean up my act a bit, for the relationship's sake and for my sake. This was pretty hard since most of my friends were the same as me and 75% of our time spent together was smoking weed. I saw less of my friends whilst I was laying off the drugs for a while. A few days passed and it felt good waking up and not still feeling monged out, I had more cash to spare too. The first weekend passed and it was nice to spend a Sunday not on the comedown, I still saw my friends, I just chose to drink instead when we went out. As the weeks passed I started feeling a lot better about myself, my memory improved, my mood improved and my motivation improved and I became my old self.
I quit my dead-end job and was unemployed for a month, I do have some decent qualifications, three A-levels and an HND in computer science, I did well at college before I went into drugs. During this period I came to realise that perhaps I didn't want a job in IT, I'd only stuck to IT because it was all I'd known and was too lazy to learn a new trade so I just kept trying at interviews, and failing because I'd normally had a sesh the day before. I went through an angency and landed myself a temping role at a housing association whilst I figured out what I wanted to do with my life.
Since I'd been off the drugs I'd improved a hell of a lot, I was back to the old me who liked to be the leader instead of sitting back and watching, who made my own opportunities and was able to deal with most problems thrown my way, this reflected in my temping job (which it turned out I enjoyed) and they offered me a full time position and a promotion at the same time, I was doing well at my job and even made it into their newsletter because I was considerably younger than most people who held that position and was getting good results as the new employee.
So now, nearly a year on after cutting back on drugs I'm earning over double the money I used to at my old job, going to work in a suit rather than overalls, have a lot more responsibilities, have much more motivation which reflects in my looks as I'm now down the gym 4 times a week giving it my all, I have a lot more cash to spend, I've become a much more outgoing person and life in general is better.
People say drugs don't ruin your life. That maybe true for some but they'll hold you back in life and it's only after you step back from the drug scene that you realise how true this is.
TL;DR: When I was on drugs my life was average and boring, I drastically cut back and now I have a very good job, good body, great relationship and I'm a better person for it.
It may be a boring story but I've never really told anyone before and wanted to get it off my chest.[/QUOTE]
This makes me respect you more, I never knew you went through a phase of coke and pills man. I'm glad you're off of it and moving up in the world. :smile:
I'd definitely have to agree that drugs in excess will fuck with your mind without you even knowing it. I mean the past couple years I was smoking more pot than a god damned Rastafarian and trying any drug that came my way, anyways the result was my brain slowed down to a crawl to the point if someone would ask me somethin it would take me seconds to respond and my speech would be really drawn out like tommy chong or some shit (I didn't even realize this until other people told me), i became extremely withdrawn when interacting with people my thought process became either "What can they do for me?" or "What do they want from me?". My motivation just went out the door I would only show up to school to fuck around or find a party and meet girls only showing up about once a week. My future goals was being a big time drug dealer. Eventually I ended up on probation and ended up sobering up due to threats of being sent to 6 month treatment programs and such and my perception got a lot better, my I gained ambitions, and overall my life improved except for my social life I don't really have any friends don't smoke pot and do drugs on a daily basis.
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