That woman who payed her daughter into collage
Met and hit it off with a new girl in town the day after my birthday. Went on a date with her, really clicked with this gal, thought this could actually be something.
The next week she texts me while I’m at work that she’s not having a good day, so i make plans to cheer her up after i get off my shift.
Had a good time just driving around bullshitting and listening to music, then we go to one of my favorite brewpubs and have a few drinks.
She goes to the restroom and I sip my beer and look at memes. Its one of those single person restrooms you can lock from inside for privacy. She’s gone for 10 minutes, and I think it’s nothing, who knows what chick’s get up to in there.
Then another 10 minutes go by and im getting a bit restless. 10 more minutes go by and other patrons are muttering about the women’s room being occupied for a while. One of the patrons asks me to call my friend, I do, she doesn’t pick up. I knock on the door, no response, I call and hear her phone go off but no response.
20 more minutes come and go before the staff found the key to the restroom, by then the cops and EMT’s showed up as well. I was right in front of the door when they opened it and had front row seats to seeing her lifeless body sprawled out on the floor. Heroin overdose.
Luckily, they were able to revive her.
At that point i had a choice, go to the hospital to be with this girl i just met the week before who’s already severely traumatized me, or go home and never look back.
I went to the hospital and was there until she was discharged later the next morning. I then decided that I really care about this person and wanted to help her get her life in order.
It took 8 months of abuse- both physical and emotional, lies, manipulation, excuses, and more stress and anxiety than I thought my body had room for before I finally decided to cut ties. I didn’t end up dating this person or so much as even kissing her, instead I was just the convenient ride, easy to ignore voice of reason, and utterly disposable punching bag for a violent and abusive narcissist who can’t possibly be to blame for her life being a dumpster fire. I just wanted to believe in her and legitimately help her out.
In any case, the damage is still done and still very much present.
To this day, I have trouble going out to bars with my friends due to the flashbacks and anxiety that occasionally resurface, need heavy duty sleeping pills to fall and stay asleep, and have lingering issues with trusting anyone new in my life. I just wanted to help and god knows i tried.
The best example of the road to hell is paved with good intentions I have ever experienced would be the concept of religion. The idea that a supreme being created all life on earth and has some sort of plan for everyone’s life is what caused many wars throughout history, as well as other atrocities such as witch burning.
I understand why people are religious, but it doesn’t change my opinion on them one bit. Religion attempts to explain everything in the world around us in terms we can understand and gives us ways to cope with our mortality by giving eternal significance to our existence through an afterlife or reincarnation/rebirth; however, if you analyze religion objectively there really isn’t any logic behind believing in them since they’re rooted in faith rather than fact.
For example, people that believe in Christianity cannot explain why the Earth is filled with so much suffering, and claim it’s because God gave humans free will and we abused it by doing evil things. I find this explanation to be silly since anyone can see if there was a supreme being who created all life he would not have allowed for such suffering to exist. If humans had just one type of will then there wouldn’t be any war or violence.
If you looked at the world objectively, there really isn’t much room for faith and religion. It’s like a man standing in front of you claiming he can fly and then asking if you want to have a flight with him even though he doesn’t have any wings or anything that would allow him to fly. This is what it feels like when someone claims they believe in God.
Religion is like a virus that infects people with irrational thinking. If you tell someone who’s religious that they’re being too irrational, people will get offended and often lash out at you because of their faith. People should question everything in the world around them, and if something doesn’t make sense then it has to be questioned or else we’re just living in ignorance which can lead to evil things such as witch burning.
Even though religion is the best example of the road to hell being paved with good intentions I have ever experienced, there are many other examples like slavery and witch burning. It’s silly how people can justify these actions in terms of their faith or that they’re doing it for a higher purpose, but if you look at them from an objective standpoint then no one would ever do such things since they aren’t beneficial.
If you really think about it, religion is just an excuse to do evil things. If people just followed the golden rule and didn’t kill each other then there wouldn’t be any need for a God or heaven. Perhaps all we need is compassion, empathy, and kindness in order to live peacefully.
I am slowly witnessing the political left become more and more bloodthirsty, like damn
Feeding starving africans. Nows theres even more starving and people like Bill gates and the government of Israel are sterilizing them.