I was close. Very close. I believe that I wouldn’t have graduated from high school if had continued another year. My friend and drug dealer, a very smart promising person, ended up in a “drug induced coma” and it was 12 years before he came to his senses. He lost 12 plus years of his life. Critical years. Life left him behind. Drugs destroyed his life and he never recovered.
That’s a fine story and all, but it misses the point.
You used it, but it didn’t take you through the gateway.
Why not?
You resisted its power.
How?