Live & Learn..hopefully

My heart hurts for people so often. To see families hurting because of decisions made by loved ones, especially parents for their children, kills me. I learned of a situation last night involving a close friend of the family. Sometimes it's hard to fathom someone's actions when you love them and know what kind of person they are inside, when you see the potential they possess. It makes me so sad to see my own generation falling apart at the seams as they turn "recreational fun" into destructive lifelong habits. I long for them to see that their past shouldn't define their future. That no matter how much they mess up, they will ALWAYS be loved. I am so proud of my brother and how well he is doing, I don't know what I would do without him. I can only hope that this friend is given a second chance and sees that she can still turn things around and leave all of this in the past, where it belongs.