My life
My name is Lauren, some friends call me Lala.
I am 23 years old and have been through some shit that i shouldnt have.
I am not afraid to tell my story because i am proud of the way i have lived through it all, and i now know everything is okay. What i have been through is not a result of a bad family life, because i had one of the best family lives you could possibly live through. My parents are together and i've never seen a couple so inlove after so many years. You would think that they had just fallen inlove. My brother, sister, and i have a very good relationship. the kind of relationship where we can hang out and talk about anything. I think that everything that I have been through is why i am the way i am today....and i truly believe that what doesnt kill u makes u stronger. I know it has for me......
Growing up I had many different sets of friends. I was never one of those "clicky" girls who didnt talk to certain people because they were different. I talked to everyone and was never judgemental towards anyone. I think that was my problem sometimes. I started hangin out with not so good crowds witch eventually led to drugs, parties, drinking, and the wrong guys. I hung around mostly guys cause they arent petty and they dont talk shit like girls do.....i had one best friend who was at my house every day, Bill. Me and bill had a friends only relationship, and i thought i could trust him. "I thought" is the opperative word here. One night we decided to have some friends over to the house and finish off the liquor that was left over from the night before. about 10 people came over and we all started chuggin.(there was ALOT left over) well a few hours went by and people started leaving until it was just me and bill again. He tried to kiss me and i told him i couldnt because i didnt want to destroy our friendship. I was bombed. I eventually passed out on my bed. I heard someone pounding on my door and woke up. i couldnt get up. Bill was on top of me and i was butt ass naked...and so was he. I tried to push him off and i screamed NO and he wouldnt move. finally he heard the pounding on the door and jumped off of me. i passed back out. when i woke up the next day i was hurtin...... i was 19 this was my first experience with a guy. I know it fuckin sucks. a little personal, but i tell it because there are so many girls out there who dont understand that someone can get through it. sure it took me a year of therapy, but i only let it teach me a lesson. and i learned.
After that it was like i was doomed with the guys i went out with. I think ive been through them all....drug addicts, woman beaters, cheaters...its like there arent any decent guys out there anymore. I went through a phase where i didnt care about anything or anyone.....not even myself. I turned to drugs and went out with any guy that sold them. i did it all. pills, coke, extacy, heroin. heroin was the one thing that totally made me loose all feelings. i didnt hurt, and i didnt care. all emotions were paralyzed. It got to a point where i was doin it every day. i didnt eat, cuz it was my meal. My family started to notice all of the changes.
It wasnt till i saw that i was hurting my mom so much she didnt know what to do. I realized i was addicted and didnt want to be dependent on anything anymore. So i went to my mom, and told her EVERYTHING. She was upset. I did the one thing that i knew i should do...i gave her my car keys and locked myself in my room for 3 days. i told her that no matter what do not let me out. Those 3 days were the most painful 3 days of my life. I had chills, couldnt sleep at all, and threw up every hour for the entire withdrawl peroid. it was like having the flu times 10. I got through it. Everyone told me to go to rehab but i knew how it was. u go to rehab, they drug u up and u never feel the actual withdrawl. i needed to feel the withdrawl cuz i needed it to remind me of what i went through so i would never do it again. And i never touched it again...its been 3 years. I had to change. i stopped hangin out with everyone i knew. which is why i only have a few friends now.
So now i am 23, clean, and im happy about life. i feel like i have made a complete turn around. I am a professional massage therapist, going to bartending school, have a good family life, friends that actually care about me and not what drugs i have on me to share. Life is good now. That is my story..........let me know what u think..............
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