Hey Steemians! I'm Luke, doing my first post on steemit. I heard about steemit through a friend @deathbypenguin.
I've taken a look around steemit already and the concept of it seems really cool - I love to draw, so I hope this can be a place for me to share my art and hopefully gain a following
I'm in my early twenties and living in the South East of England. I work full-time at a warehouse. It's not my ideal job, but it pays the bills and I get a good workout.
Here's a couple of pictures of the town I live in...
Rochester, United Kindom
Rochester Castle
As beautiful as Rochester is I'm not originally from here, I've spent the past 8 years moving around the South East. I started off in a lovely seaside town known by the name of Herne Bay, home to whats believed to be one of the earliest purpose-built , free standing clock towers. As i neared towards the end of Secondary School my family decided to make the move up to London, Notting Hill and enrolled in school there.
At 16 I began the slippery slope of drug use and abuse. I started off drinking and began to meet the precarious individuals that London had to offer. I initially just tried cannabis as it was the most casual that everyone was doing but the more and more involved I got the harder the drugs I took were. Trying MDMA led me onto wanting to try everything else, to push my limits, I craved the feeling of my brain being fried. In spite of all this, my family decided to move back to Kent due to the people I associated myself with.
So I moved to Rochester, enrolled in and attended college where I met James. It's when I decided to go back to London that down the road from mine I saw James outside of his friends smoking and that's when I was introduced to Phillip. I barely knew anyone but Phillip knew everyone, when we got talking the topic of drugs was brought up and shortly after, it started again.
Here's a list of all of the drugs I've done
- MDMA
- Coke
- M-Kat
- 25-i
- LSD
- Shrooms
- Spice
- Ketamine
- Cannabis
- Xanax
- Speed
- Morphine (Yes acutal recreational use)
- Codeine
- Oxycontin
- Valium
- NOS
I know, that's a lot. One day I woke up and realised I needed to get a grips with reality again, I got fed up of relying on my family for everything so I signed up to Jobcentre and got on the job searching. I went through a couple jobs such as retail and telesales before I got into warehouse work. I've now been consistently employed for over a year, I've gone from living with my family, earning minimum wage to working on decent money and having even moved out of my Mother's house.
I'm doing well now, moving forward and focusing on the the long-term. Steemit seems like an awesome community, and I look forward to contributing
Thanks for reading!