Originally Posted by
weirdesttoner 
7 years of my life i lost.
Just don't make it 8 years. You can move forward with your life, or let remorse push you back.
I quit drugs at age 30. My twenties were a big hole that I filled with getting high. But when I quit, I wasn't going to waste another second. I enrolled in college, got my degree, then my masters, changed careers, became a professional.
It didn't matter what I did in my 20s. What mattered was what I was going to do years I had remaining.
Make your remaining years matter.