David Hunt
Introduction
Introduction (well, a part of it)
From an outside view, your life may look great. The truth, however, is that people probably don’t know that you might be struggling at your job, can’t pay your rent, or are having marital problems. You go through life hiding your problems away from the world, repressing them and finding ways to keep pushing along. No matter how much you try, the problems don’t stop; they keep popping up. This book isn’t for the people whose lives are completely wonderful. This is for the people who are facing some struggle, the ones who don’t have it all figured out. This was written for the people who can at least attempt to be real with themselves and honest about moving towards progress.
This was very much the case for me as I entered my senior year of college. Life was at a standstill; I was twelve thousand dollars in credit card debt; the vast majority of which came from many drunken nights, I didn’t have a way to pay for a thirty-thousand dollar tuition bill, I was going through the fifth breakup with my girlfriend of three years, my dad was about to lose his house, one of his cars had already been repossessed, and his business was failing to the tune of a two-hundred thousand dollar debt load. I constantly struggled to pay my rent on time and my bank account was in overdraft every few months. I had racked up an eighteen-hundred dollar utility bill forcing my gas at my apartment to be shut off. With no heat, I took cold showers and used frozen dinners that I could microwave with my still available electricity.
My relationship with both of my parents was in rapid decline, to the point that I stopped visiting home or talking to them as much because I would get so annoyed with them. To compensate, I was constantly partying on the weekends and spending money that I didn’t have while drinking unhealthy amounts of alcohol, harming both my health and my social life. I was failing at life and I really couldn’t conceive of a way to escape it all.
(that’s enough for now, check out Chapter 1)