Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
I think that to never let yourself live down your mistakes and move on is a defiant move against personal progress and growth. While endangering someones life in such a careless way is a terrible and almost unforgivable thing, I would like to think that what makes us human is our ability to forgive (and to forgive oneself). Without that I think we remain entrenched in a vicious and relentless past.
As for the Heroine, I would like to think that I would embrace the desire for experimentation from my child. I actually put my mother in this situation when I was young (not with heroine but other drugs and alcohol). She accepted that I would try these things regardless of her acceptance and thus let my sister and I do what we were going to do anyway at home. And I have to say in hind sight, she did the right thing. I feel like that experience led me to develop a better sense of self-control and judgement, because it really was up to me.
thenewgreen · 4711 days ago · link ·
As a parent I think that the alcohol/pot conversation is a very different thing than the heroin conversation. To pretend that these drugs exist in a similar category is a gross exaggeration. I think has it right with his trip to Alaska. -Not a punishment, just time to reconnect and figure some things out together. But I could not support or embrace my child's desire to experiment with heroin. I'd actually have a hard time with alcohol/pot too but I'd understand.