Uh, actually, you didn't make choices. You didn't choose to go blind or live with a psycho rapist or have a dad who died and couldn't get his act together to not be poor and probably, you didn't even know you were going to be an addict when you started using. Frankly, the only thing you've actually chosen to do so far is to do well at school (and hell, given you live at your school, I'm not entirely sure you actually get a choice about that and to not use drugs but even that's not actually a choice, because it'is like, court mandated. You don't stay clean, you go to jail. It's not a case of wanting to stay clean for you, it's that you don't actually want to go to jail. Face it, if you're under 18, you're not alloweda make choices.
Until you're actually old enough to be legally allowed to make your own choicces about what you do with your money and where you live, you're allowed to play the blame game, because they fucked you over. If you were old enough that you were actually allowed to make decisions, well, that would be different.
Also, working hard, studying, doing well at school... what's it actually going to do? Leave you half a million dollars in debt for some degree that's worth like, about as much as some toilet paper because hey, junkie ex-foster kid who can't see. You've already made it clear that the system will fuck you over, so you have to find a different way of being successful, because doing it the "proper" way ain't going to work.
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Date: 2013-01-30 01:37 pm (UTC)Until you're actually old enough to be legally allowed to make your own choicces about what you do with your money and where you live, you're allowed to play the blame game, because they fucked you over. If you were old enough that you were actually allowed to make decisions, well, that would be different.
Also, working hard, studying, doing well at school... what's it actually going to do? Leave you half a million dollars in debt for some degree that's worth like, about as much as some toilet paper because hey, junkie ex-foster kid who can't see. You've already made it clear that the system will fuck you over, so you have to find a different way of being successful, because doing it the "proper" way ain't going to work.