A Thank You to Addict Parents
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Scottish teen Chelsea Cameron has written a letter to her parents, who are drug addicts. But unlike letters or stories you may have seen in the past, it isn’t resentful. There’s not anger. There is only gratitude, as she thanks them for showing how hollow, and awful a life of addiction can be.
Here’s an extract:
“Thank you for teaching me that taking drugs ruins lives, breaks families apart and gives no one a quality of life worth living.
I’ll be eternally grateful for this lesson you have taught me, which has a message that has stuck by me until this day and always will — I have never and will never have a desire to take harmful substances through your example.
Thank you for teaching me to be ambitious. Your example showed me that no ambition for education, work or any type of success is very harmful and leads to not a lot of self-worth. Your example showed me that life is all about choices and that I didn’t need to make the same ones you did.”
Chelsea was made head girl of her year, and even went to Uganda to carry out charity work with her school, Menzieshill High School in Dundee. As head girl last year, she spoke to hundreds in an award ceremony at school.
When speaking to BBC Scotland, she explained how a teacher told her class that anyone with parent who were drug addicts, were “absolutely certain” to follow that path also.
Her mother also spoke about her daughter:
“No child should have to go through what Chelsea did and live that kind of life.
“I am ashamed and upset at my behavior and am so sorry and so proud of her.”
Spoken like a true parent.
So, from that she decided to do something with her life.
And if that doesn’t give you a glimmer of hope for the future then what will.