Please take care of yourselves (health and daily choices)

Laying in bed next to my girlfriend, unable to sleep at almost 2 AM I started to think just how lucky I am with where I am in my life. I have made it through some dark deppresion as a teen/young adult. Then into my early 20's learning to adult the hard way. Stress of bills a drug addiction fed by my own family doctor and just life coming down on me hard I decided to try to make ends meet by illegal means.

I was sentenced to 6 felony burglaries and 1 grand theft. I was absolutely sure I was going away for a long time. But I got lucky! I was given the chance to either serve my time or complete a drug rehab program. I served that program in prison for 10 months (I was released this time last year). But now I'm here; 25yrs old, Laying next to a girl probably way too good for me who has never so much as stolen a penny from someone(we celebrated our 3 year anniversary two days ago :), Who waited for me through a drug addiction and the prison stay, in our warm house with food in the fridge and a job that I've only been working at for 8 months making more than my last job that I worked for 4 years!!

I'm still sober off the meds I was abusing (never going back). Me and my girl started going to the gym when I got my job and I've gained so much confidence with myself that ive never had. life is hard and i thank the heavens that I got the chances I got to turn things around. My point I think is I know not everyone has what they want or their situations are just far more unfortunate I just trully wish the best for everyone and if these words can inspire even one person to make even a simple choive to better their lives then this post was worth.