drrman said:
Yes, I think it made me a much stronger person mentally for sure. I had a ver bad motorcycle accident about 2 years after college and was laid up from 2 surgeries, this is when i got bad on the G. I couldn't train, couldn't do shit so i just laid around and tried catching a good buzz...........well that turned into me chasing a constant buzz that turned into an addiction. I finally work up one morning and looked at myself in the mirror, looked at my life, my financial situation and how i had alienated all my friends and family and literally walked to the sink and poured about 1k worth of the shit down the sink.
I've since turned my life around and doing better than I ever have!, its been about 2 years or so since my last cap of the liquid devil!
wow man thanks for sharing.
It means alot to share these things with people cus its proof that there is always hope.
being alone in the dark ( on all levels) after you burned your bridges both practically and spiritually( if you belive in Spiritual stuff) and still making it and becoming stronger shows that Grace and Determination can go hand and hand.
And now that you went through that you will be the one that will be able to reach out to someone and catch them before they fall.
And am always reminded about a Religious story about a man who was a criminal his whole life. He was walking in the desert after he decided not to rob or hurt people any more, and along the journey he could not make it to the other point. Becuase he stopped his old ways he had no rations to sustain him. He came upon a group of women where he had just enough strength to steal from them or harm them, just before he was going to do it, he said NO no more, if I have to die, I die........ in this moment he took ONE STEP towards God, and God RAN to him.........
He awoke on the other side alive and began his new life
It is Said if you crawl to God he will walk to you, if you walk to God he will Run to you, if you choose to Love God he will give you Everything.
sorry the story might not be relavent exactly but its a good one, in that its never too late to change.