Dilemmas...

So I've been supporting an eighteen year old the last couple months and trying to help someone who for all accounts have had a rough life...

A father who never took responsibility...

A mother who was never tough enough...

A someone who abondon him at his greatest time of need...

So here I was left with a fragile life in my hands and I stood at a crossroads....

Go left and turn my back and we have another member of the I-going-to-do-whatever-the-fuck-I-want-club-no-matter-who-or-how-it-hurts club...

or

Go right and wrap my arms around the situation and stand up and teach someone wants it means to be an adult or better yet a man...


So here is my dilemma....

I've done everything I can to do the right thing and try to set the right example...

To teach the lessons that should have been taught when he was age 6, 8, 10....

So now he's eighteen....He thinks he's a man...

He knows the difference between right and wrong, but consistently chooses wrong...

So I've done one of the tougher things I've ever done....

I had to sit down and have an intervention...

And give him a choice...

Go into the military and hope they can put him on the right path...

or

Send him into the world and let fate take it course...



So yet another crossroad....Do I hope he takes the right path...

I honestly do...but I know this child...I know him to well....


I just hope for the first time in my life he proves me wrong...