By: JOEY UY
Graduate 2007
AS the most senior member of the graduating class, I am honored to deliver tonight’s graduation speech. I was chosen not because I am the oldest person in the class but because I have been in the program for 36 months now. Yes, this has been my long process here in SELF but, to tell you frankly, I would not have it any other way.
Before I came to SELF my life was a total mess. I lost the trust of my loved ones and exhausted every drop of love and support they had to offer. I have been to several rehabs but, strangely, nothing worked. I continued to abuse myself in my drug taking habit thinking it was just a phase I had to go through.
I practically lived in the streets but, somehow, I always felt that someone would eventually come and rescue me. I was separated from my wife, put to jail, yet I refused to shape up. Many thought my jail experience would be my rock-bottom, but unfortunately, I just kept on going.
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