Do you think doing a cycle will add to your life? Let me tell you what will happen to a 25 year old like you. You will meet some low life iin the parking lot of your gym and check out the syringes, pills and vials in his car. After weeks on the juice you will feel confident and aggressive. Mentally you will feel on top of the world. Incredible great antidepressant. Physically you will start rapidly gaining size and strength. Your body fat will go down. Suddenly in 4 to 6 weeks you will get a lot of positive attention. Many will ask you about training advice thinking you know something. In effect you do but it's not about training. You will love how you feel in da club, beach and just about everywhere. Every time you go to the gym it's a new record for reps or weight used.
After being on for say 2 months you decide not the push your luck and go off cycle for a month or two. After awhile you start feeling nervous and a little timid. You find yourself getting depressed easily. The muscle begins to fade fast as your body fat comes back. Working out is depressing. Everything you read says steroids is not addictive but you crave that feeling again. You take hundreds of dollars that you shouldn't spent on gear and you hand it to the guy in the parking lot who doesn't appear to have a job but many gym memberships. He knew you would be back. Now starts the pattern of cycling on and off gear for many years. After throwing away your education and career wasting your money on gear for many years you stop. You stop because of finances, arrest, or health.
Training without gear seems to be a waste of time now. You now have to carry around a picture of how you use to look.
Great post and should be read, because that's the truth.
In the mid twenties you look back in your life and say damn! I was young just awhile back, now I'm closer to 30 than 20! You get these "I have to go forward somewhere and fast, I have to throw my principles away to do it" because you sense that you're approaching the age that's not interesting anymore and the passion you didn't have when you were young comes back in super speed but the fact is you are older, more mature and you have better awereness of yourself so you feel very imbalanced with these feelings. I guess many people may go through this, even the "successfull" people, but it's only because you feel like you haven't done something that should be done, that requires work and it's driving you insane.
I mean in my country more and more rich folk are suddenly losíng it, and they kill their family, burn their house and then tell the cop "I don't know why I did it...". I mean people who dont' use drugs, they own a small island, they have cars... they could do everything they wanted with the wealth, but no, they get depressed and kill their family and burn their 4000sq mansion.
People just need to find that something that makes them happy! But I don't think a cycle is gonna do shit.