07-15-2022, 12:06 PM
(07-14-2022, 10:47 PM)GMDino Wrote: So, to the conversation goin on in this thread, why were you that way?
Bad parenting? Video games? Something else?
Did you "grow out of it"? Or were you "scared straight"?
And I'm being sincere. This thread is filled with people discussing others but not themselves. You seem to be a decent adult so can we have hope for the kids in the OP?
Personally I was a rule follower and respected adults and people in positions of power: priests, cops, teachers, etc. My parents taught me well and I was never in any trouble as a kid. Not even a detention. So I can't comment on what it takes to turn a life around other than a few friends who seem to have made it to adulthood despite the way they acted as children.
To quickly answer, I had (have) great parents and was taught to respect adults and figures in those positions the same way you were. Then I hit my teenage years and ran with the absolute wrong crowd which changed my trajectory in a major way.
To condense a long story, the Marine Corps more or less saved my life.
