To understand my journey you really have to dig deep and go further back to my childhood, how I grew up, how I was brought up and the environment I was in. Keep in mind this is a very condensed version and all of this is coming off the top of my head and is all from what I remember without putting too much time into it. I grew up in a broken home, my dad cheated on his girlfriend, who he had two kids with before me, and when he found out my mom was pregnant he skipped out. He was also put in jail shortly after because of gang related business among the TRG, or Tiny Rascal Gang a very prominent one in California. While he was in jail my mom struggled to move on and moved on to drugs and alcohol, hitting it even harder than she did before she was pregnant with me. My step dad did try to clean her up and was there by her side through it all, he didn't want the first grandson of the family to be born messed up. He succeeded to an extent, but after I was born my mom left the hospital a...