At 200 Mph, You Have No Friends

I grew up at a very fast pace and I wasn't slowing down for anybody. As a child, I was tired of being told by the adults what I could and couldn't do. I was the child, yet they were having all the fun. I wanted to have fun too, so I did what they did. I was smoking cigarettes and having sex at eleven. Started drinking and smoking weed at twelve. I was a single mother at sixteen, married at seventeen and wanting a divorce at eighteen. I buried my third child at twenty. By this time in my life, being an adult didn't seem all that fun anymore. I am fortytwo now and can't erase none of the above. So if you're reading this and still at a fairly young age... Slow down. You're only a child for seventeen years and then you will have the rest of your life to be an adult and do as you please.