Sure. Let me make it personal. I am a drug addict. No one is going to say that doing drugs was a good idea, particularly at the levels that I was doing them (I had a $3000/day habit). But here's the thing, I was screwed up long before I started doing drugs. In fact, you've got to be pretty screwed up to think putting poison into your body is a pretty nifty idea - but I did.

My drug habit brought me to such depths that I finally reached a place where I was ready to get help. Once I put down the drugs, I started working on the screwed up thinking that brought me to drugs in the first place. Without the deadly nature of that addiction, all that garbage from my childhood would never have been addressed. I very likely would have spent the rest of my life being miserable.

Instead, addiction brought me to a bottom. The bottom brought me to recovery. Recovery brought me to a measure of peace and happiness that I've enjoyed for the last twenty-four years. Happiness I never would have had.

In fact, every mistake that I have ever made, every bit of suffering I have ever had, brought me down a road that I would have never gone down willingly. And along each of those roads I found something of such value that if I had known what I would have found - I would have gladly paid twice the price. So yeah, I'm even glad I'm a recovering addict. It cost me everything I had - but I got more back than I started out with.

So I guess what I'm saying is, you think this person is making a mistake. Maybe you're right - maybe not. But let's say you are. Maybe that mistake will lead them down a path that is actually good for them. For me, I've learned to trust the process - and everyone's process is different.