Sometimes life is really hard. I have it so easy. I am truly blessed with opportunities that most people have only dreamed of. I’m at a great school. I have a dream internship this summer. I have a great family and great friends. I am healthy and happy.
Yet, today, I had to do one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do - I had to tell my sister if she didn’t get her son (my nephew) under control that her son was going to die. Does anyone want to hear their child is going to die? Probably not. Do they need to hear it? Most definitely.
My nephew is a good kid, but now he just turned 15 and he’s seriously, and quickly, headed down the wrong path. He just went to court for trying to steal from a department store. He drinks. He smokes pot. Now he’s taking hallucinogens. He skips school. He has D’s and F’s on his report card. And did I mention he’s 15?
I’m not a parent and I never meddle in other people’s business, but this is my family here and my sister is thick-headed. She’d rather pretend that nothing is wrong or that problems fix themselves than to deal with these issues. Unfortunately, if you have a stupid 15 year kid old who’s getting no direction from his family, he’s going to do something stupid because at 15, teen-people make really bad decisions.
So, I had to tell her, in a not so nice way, that my nephew was going to overdose on drugs and die if she didn’t step in and perform an intervention in this kids’ life. And then I said I hope she was prepared to deal with his death if she doesn’t do anything about it.
Goddamn that was hard. I’m never that dramatic, but this is serious shit here. In 6 months this kid’s life has completely gone down the tubes and it’s only been getting worse and worse. I tried to speak with him about it because he thinks I’m the ‘cool aunt’ but for fuckssake this kid will not listen. So, if anyone has experience with troubled teens and would like to offer up any suggestions let me know because I’m taking this kid down to Chinatown in about 3 weeks when I go back to LA.
# posted by MargaritaLuvr @ 2:06 PM
