What was a really hard choice you had to make in your life that you don't regret ?

Deciding to stop caring about what the world thought of me and screwing shit up. Now Ima cooool kid.

First hour in juvenile prison a sergeant got in my face and told me I was going to get eaten alive in there. I would have thought the same thing because I was 120 pounds and white, which is just a walking advertisement for bullying in there. It upset me that he put me on blast like that in front of sixty or so other kids. I remember then and there telling myself I'd prove him wrong.

I took a shit ton of beatings, started working out everyday. Changed my whole personality over two years. Took up the boxing program. Two years later when I got released, I walked past the same sergeant who had since been promoted to lieutenant and looked him dead in the eye.

"Proved you wrong " "What?" "You told me I'd get eaten alive here, remember? Proved you wrong " This dude looked at me and I could practically see the pride come over him. "You damn sure did"

Then I went home and got arrested again six months later and sentenced to five years in state prison. I remember all this vividly because before I was a shy, timid, sniveling little pussy who got bullied regularly in school, and there I was making a choice that changed all of that despite how much it went against my nature. Even though it didn't work out in the long run what with me being a violent offender now, it still makes me proud to think back on.

Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is the best thing you can do for your situation.

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