journey to enlightenment

this incarnation ha s been a terribly karma laden and difficu lt journey. A dark night of the soul. A healing journey that has taken courage and tenacity an dl ove, . Love i had to find internally, within myself. Abandone d by my parents to the streets of nyc. as a teenager, with repetitve traumas i had one vision and thought and that was to discover why th e karma why i had to fight to survive with all odds agains t me . karma ! so instead of taking my life or becoming an addict or alcoholic i gritted my teeth an d fough t t o survive all the while studying buddhism and any religion or spiritual practice or depth research int o incarnations to find out why and how . as i survive d on the streets and ho w i survived on the street s is difficult to speak of .I cam e from a je wish wealthy family, then on the streets penniless in th e winter with no boots , coat no one to turn to really, except some friends who offered me their floor at times but i was homeless. ....................trying to be vegan and buddhist avoiding drugs, alcohol but one thing i could not avoid........