Boomerangs

I was at work and ran into a client that had been there before, when I first started. She and I always had a good relationship, but that didn't mean I wanted her to come back.

I told her as much and she said she just 'fucked up' again. I told her it was alright. At least she was here and not in prison, still using, or dead. I understand that, working in this field, there will be plenty of recidivism. You should get a grasp on that too if you're serious about being a social worker. Whether you want to work for domestic violence victims, foster child services, or many of the other fields that social workers grace, you will have to deal with people that don't 'get it' on the first try, and even people that never 'get it'.

Unfortunately, I also saw a girl I used to go to school with be admitted. This was rather shocking. She's a little younger than me, probably about nineteen, so I was on my way to college when she was entering high school, but I remember seeing her around quite a bit because she used to hang out with my younger cousin, who also went to the same school as I did.

I don't know her well enough to gauge whether or not she fell off a high horse, or finally admitted she had a long-standing problem and crawled up from the gutter, but, again, at least she's somewhere that can give her some sort of aid with her addiction.