I'm more convinced than ever that my alcoholism and drug addictions were a smoke screen for the BIG one that mucks up most peoples' lives: our addiction to People, Places & Things. Most of my shit comes from this BIG one. Recovery is about trusting the Higher Power to help us detach from its claws and it's consequences: Death (in its myriad manifestations); Divorce; Debt: and Depression. The 4 Ds!
That's why Christmas is such a season of joy (for most people) - because the story of the Nativity defies Nature; defies logic. And therein lies the Hope that, no matter how hopeless, dismal or despairing our situation, a miracle can happen and fundamentally transform everything.
That miracle, incidentally, has already happened to those who are in recovery from drug and alcohol dependency. Why not join them on 'the road to happy destiny'?
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Human beings are SUPPOSED to be addicted to one another...
ReplyDeleteThat's what love is. Mutual adoration, mutual need.
That's why we are capable of addiction to chemicals, because those chemicals light up the same circuits in the brain that love is supposed to light up. Opium poses as a beautiful woman and seduces man when it's just the sap of a flower really.
Human beings are social creatures... we're not meant to be independent.