Finding myself knee deep in addiction before I started high school, I dropped out shortly after because my primary focus in life was pursuing the ever elusive “perfect high.” For the next 13 years, I continued a downward spiral that eventually culminated with an arrest for manufacturing methamphetamine in January 2014.
I was a liar, a thief, a manipulator, and oddly enough, the fact that I was a high school dropout seemed to stick with me throughout my life among all the other nonsense that I was doing. Eventually, I ended up in solitary confinement, which is where everything changed for me. I was taken to my sentencing hearing directly from solitary and sentenced to three years for my crimes. I had never even been to jail before, but now I was going away for three years. Walking back to…
