To Every End There Is A New Beginning

And that beginning is here.
My name is Rhiana, and this is my attempt at revealing my life to the world in the hopes that some will learn from it, and some will teach me as well.
I have spent many years following the path which some deem "easy," only to find that it is a path laiden with many difficulties that many never dream of encountering. I chose to tempt fate at every turn, never listening to those who love me the most and want nothing more but happiness for me.
Background: When I was in my early twenties I decided to try a drug that got the better of me, believing that the laws of physical addiction did not apply to my body. Herion turned out to be one hell of a monkey that I will carry for the rest of my life. I found myself sentenced to prison, stripped of all my possessions and fighting for the love of my families who were rapidly losing faith in me.
Prison turned out to be the best thing for me. I found my sense of accomplishment through work, the concept of not taking my loved ones for granted but most of all self respect.
To this day, I still struggle with every day life. I am now faced with unemployment, being thirty and living my my dad, struggling in a relationship with a man a cannot live without and fighting for a sense of worthiness in all of it. Yet, I carry on in the hopes that one day I will look back and realize I am that much stronger for having overcome all the odds that I have stacked against myself.