I used to hate cedu, I used to refuse all the time do whatever I could just to out of agreement and all that stuff. I faked it to make it to get out of there at the end, then when I left spent all this time bashing and them hating them. I then went out and lived a life i thought I wanted that cedu had been taking away from me. I ended up living on the streets, getting addicted to crack, coke, pain killers, morphine, and then just doing whatever else came along. I lost my job, I blaimed them even though I came in late every day on three hours of sleep still feeling whatever I had shoved up my nose or in my arm and smelling like whatever I had slept in the night before outside. I had to smoke a couple of packs of ciggarettes a day to stay awake and pound energy drinks all day if I didnt have some coke to keep me up I could line out at my jobs bathroom. Every drug i did or ciggarette i smoked was from money I had stolen. If i wasn,t working i was drugged up robbing cars, houses, or whatever else came along that could make me money. I was at a point of serious rock bottom people thought I was gonna die because I looked so unhealthy. I went to jail amd my head cleared a little. If it was not for cedu and all I had learned there, how to take care of my physical and emotional needs, and you know, just all the other stuff they teach you. I am sure I would have continued that path. So using what they taught me I successfully quit everything even the cigarettes and became very athletic and healthy instead. I felt better than being on drugs by far. I watch my other friends who were part of the drug life style with me well most of them anyways, either die, end up in jai,l or just age years in months. Then I had the problem that noone could be my friend because noone lived up to the cedu way i was living. Everyone was irritating with there games and the way they acted. I could not befriend anyone or date anyone. Even other cedu kids were still doing drugs I knew all acted ridiculous. But after a half year or so, I ended up finding a few people that I could relate to, and found people about ten years older than me I could reallt relate to, and become good friends with. I am now twenty one, have a nice apartment(well for my income), car, am making pretty good amounts of money, am doing well emotionally better than i have my whole life, am extremely athletic and healthy, and have successfully finished a year of college on my way to being a doctor. I could never have pictured I would be this happy with my life and self. I have to say it would have never happened, if not for cedu. I would have been dead or in jail.
