I went through a period when i was 17 in which i seen my.life as pointless and that i would be like everyone else growing up in my s****y neighborhood in Brooklyn. I was the minority, a skinny a*s white kid in a neighborhood of color .....so fighting was a way of life. Endless fights, fighting for my right to walk down a street, fighting the cops because i was a d**g a****t, fighting inner demons

My parents drank and drugged their way thru life. I KNEW I WOULD DIE A STATISTIC. My friends started dealing d***s to make ends meet... this was my path....

I woke up one day in a house i didn't recognize with a woman whose name i couldn't remember... at 17 i thought my life was over....

I didn't have money to move out or i would have, so i joined the Army and at 18 left "my old life behind".. 4 years later i returned back to that Brooklyn neighborhood and EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE was doing the exact same things (4 years older and everything FOR THEM STOOD STILLALMOS)... drinking d***s and a hopeless cycle i knew was my fate 4 years earlier..... i never went back and settled in Los Angels for a few years eventually living and working in NY again.

My life was never the same, all that was needed was a break from "that life"....

Thats my disappearing act and it saved my life in doing so, im not rich nor am i poor but i made a good life for myself
It all started from that decision to join the army and life has been ok since that time....saved my.life.

Environmental factors like exhaust, products in our homes, etc. is causing more health problems than we realize or are willing to acknowledge.