Originally Posted by
juicefree20
Carlo,
I have to admit that when I was a bit younger, I used to feel the same way. I never got into drugs & never understood how anyone could ever get hooked. I used to think that addicts couldn't kick drugs because they just didn't want to.
After awhile I spoke to people & they told me that I just didn't know what I was talking about, nor could I understand just how deep addiction runs & they were right...I didn't understand.
Then as I watched so many famous people lose their careers, it began to dawn on me that if people were throwing entire careers away, costing themselves countless millions in the process, then it has to be much more to it than my supposition that "they just don't want to quit". When I saw a young lady whom I once walked across the stage at high school graduation, a mere 8 years later in my friend's store negotiating getting a 49 cent Drake's cake & a 50 cent soda, in exchange for orally pleasuring the store owner, it began to dawn on me that addiction to this drug was far deeper than my mind could comprehend.
And as I looked around & saw once-proud women whom just a few short years earlier were so bad that brothers were trying to give them the world just to be with them, selling themselves for a few dollars, told me that drug addiction was not what I believed it to be.
But when I saw stories about kids killing their parents or grandparents, or parents killing their kids & once-proud men not caring enough to wash themselves & worse, reducing themselves to offer oral pleasure to a dealer or someone whom would offer them $5 just so that they could get their next hit, that told me that when it came to my ideas about addiction, that I didn't know what I was talking about. I had no idea at all, I had no idea what I was talking about.
And that's when I dropped any haughty ideas that I previously held about those addicted to drugs. I saw what drugs did to far too many decent people, people whom I had known for much of my life who had the misfortune of having something that was once done socially, completely swallow them whole.
And to those whom were once out there & through the grace of God managed to pull themselves out of that pit, I applaud them mightily, because I know far too many childhood or school friends who never made it out of the 80s, much less the 90s because of addiction.
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