I was trying to get him to understand that it’s not just trying or wanting to change. I believe you have to make a choice, you have to decide. I make a choice right there and then that I am done with my old life. I choose rowing. I choose a future. I know it’s easier to say I’ll try than to do it. I haven’t been institutionalized. Maybe if the judge saw Ike as his own son, he would have offered a therapist and some form of education instead of jail time. And things could have been different around here.
