ADDICTION

I spent a lot of my life trying to figure out why people use drugs. I've come to the conclusion that there are as many reasons as there are addicts. I've seen children 10 years old and adults 85 years old addicted to one thing or another. The rich and the poor. From the jobless to judges. I've seen people I would have bet everything I own could not make it out of their addiction, only to stand tall and beat it. It might have been cocaine, meth, alcohol, nicotine, gambling, eating, co-dependency. We find ourselves in all kind of dire straits, but we have the capacity to recover. I wish I could say it is easy, but it's not. It will be the fight of your life. Or I suppose, better stated, it will be a lifetime of fight. It continues to be for me the most beautiful thing to watch. Recovery.