Hey all,
This past week has been very exciting. I started it off by being allowed to speak at Brophy College Prepatory. Brophy has a beautiful campus. I was expecting to be be nice looking but I was still surprised. I really liked their library and their new cafeteria. The ceiling was really cool looking in there. I was really glad to speak there for personal reasons. Then on Tuesday I got to got to Sunrise middle school. It was the second time I have spoken there. They have a really nice Liberian. I can tell she really cares about the students. I also know I would not want to get caught chewing gum in that library also!
I just finished answering some email from a school in Gilbert that I spoke at a few weeks ago. Several of the emails had the same question. They were wondering if I wish I had never drank alcohol. This is a tough question to answer. In one sense, of course I wish I had never drank alcohol. If I could have avoided all the stuff I went through and still have the great life I have today, without a doubt. But, there is no way of knowing that I would have this same great life I have today if I had never drank. So in that respect, no. I am grateful for the life I have today and if that meant I had to go through every single one of those “bad moments” to get where I am at today, then so be it. And I do not regret a single sip of alcohol that I drank. You see, it all led to where I am at today. A similar question that was asked was if I wish I had not started drinking so young. As strange as it may sound, I am very happy that I started drinking so young. If I had not, I may not of gotten help until much later in my life. Things got bad with me with my drinking very quickly. Believe it or not I consider myself lucky! It could have been much worse for me if my life was miserable because of drinking and it dragged on for a very long time. Luckily for me things got real bad real quick and I knew I had to quit drinking or I was going to end up in prison, or dead in a car crash from drunk driving. That is what it took for me to quit drinking. I had to become convinced I was going to end up in prison or dead from alcohol. This of course happened after I had already lost friends, family, been arrested, hurt my family, been in fights, lost girls, and crashed cars. If any one of these things did not happen, maybe I would have continued to drink. There is no way for me to say. But I’m glad I did quit, and I am glad I did do all those bad things.