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I got some mixed news this weeks from some of my friends back home. Where I grew up in California, we were sort of out of the way in the northern area of the state. We didn't have too much to do in high school and in a lot of ways it was what I imagine small towns around the country to be like. The typical weekend consisted of binge drinking at night and recovering in the afternoons. Those of us that managed to do well in school got out and have gone off to college. Those of us that did not do so well have found themselves stuck in a situation that is very hard to get out of without some sort of outside motivator. Sadly, a lot of times that motivator is nearly losing your life or going to jail. It is a hard path but like everything in life, it is for some and now for others.

One of my best friends in high school was always a bad drinker and she was always really in to taking a lot of diet pills. She wasn't from a broken home or a bad family at all, but she just felt like there was nothing else in her life but keeping thin and getting drunk to impress people. To this end she never did much in school and stayed right where we left her for the last two years. The phone call I got the other day was from another of my friends from that period who had gone home to visit before school starts next month. He had found that her mother had checked her in to a California treatment center. The reasons were for alcohol abuse and immediate eating disorder treatment. She had gotten a little bit more lonely since we had all left and her mother had watched her sort of drift away in the arms of her two vices. The news I got was mixed because apparently she was doing very well then two weeks in to an eleven week program, and she said that she was done with it all. She sounds to me like a different and happier person, but it is sad that it had to come about this way.