Zurich to open drive-in prostitition boxes

[Democracyinkind]

17. I used to work for a small company...

Manual labor, after dropping out of school.

Everyday, after work, Max, my boss, would drive to this place and shoot up his methadone. Go home to his wife, kids. Pay taxes. Being loved. Educating his kids. Stuff people do.
7 years before that, he was a foul-smelling junkie, breaking in to houses in order to finance his addiction.
And although this is a ridiculously ideal outcome that can't be replicated for everyone, it goes a long way in proving that there is merit in second chances.

My biography alone forced me to seriously appreciate what it means to get a second chance (Would I hold a PhD today, living in any other place, after simply walking away from school for almost 2 years?..). But it was Max's example, more than any other personal experience, that taught me that believing in and offering second chances, even in the most hopeless situations, may be the right thing for a society to do. Sometimes reality beats fiction even in beautiful things.

Then again, and this I would want to emphasize... Not all is ideal here (where is it, anyway..)... There's still allot to do right, allot to strive for, allot to achieve. Considering how cartoonishly nice the living standards are in Switzerland it is easy to forget those who live in the shadows of it. And it's also way too easy to simply ignore all the dark and evil stuff that takes place within this shining city on the hill. There's always more to struggle for, and that's what I'm trying to do as best as I can.

Well anyway.. Say hi to your gf from a fellow Swiss-American (Tacitly mention to her that she's eligible to vote here, too, and that we're often in lack of reasonable voters?.. )