As a former alcoholic, mykidsmum, no I don't feel sympathy for people who chose to abuse substances, especially when they see absolutely nothing wrong with their behaviour and do FA to change it.
I was a drunk. It was dumb, f()ing nowhere s&^t. NO ONE put a gun to my head and forced me to drink myself silly in order to cope with life. I* chose to do it. And it did nothing to solve my problems. Instead, I just had all those same problems AND I was an alcoholic into the bargain. I've heard every excuse in the book - I've used them all, in fact. I lost almost everything important to me b/c of substance abuse, and it was 100% MY fault. It's only when you stop making excuses and blaming someone or something else that you have a hope in hell of moving on and actually becoming a decent person.
Nothing happens until you decide.
That man who held a gun to my head went on to kill someone at work - in a robbery. He killed some innocent person who was just there trying to make a living.
And yet you're shocked that I feel the way I do? Aren't you shocked that someone had to die b/c of behaviour this perpetrator chose to be involved in?
And I'm LONG past angry. Hatred? I don't have time for that. It just makes me want to throw up. The person I was when I was a drunk makes me want to throw up. What a waste! What a loser!
Have you ever been to/lived in South America? Do you realise that peasants there work in those fields in slave conditions to produce drugs? That they have nowhere to go? That if they don't they'll be shot - or worse? Yeah, they have kids, too. Tens of millions of people live in abject poverty with their lives in the hands of drug cartels, thousands of innocent people are murdered by stray bullets, mistaken identities, etc. And everytime someone buy coke, they feed that industry.