Addiction has always been something in my life. As a kid it was my dad's addiction that was always at the forefront. Worrying he would be coming home high like always in his paranoid state. After that my mom's addiction to her relationship with her husband and him always being what drove her decisions and happiness.
As a adult I became obsessed with my daughter's medical condition, work and being a mom. I know that probably sounds not so bad but it is when you push everything and everyone out of your life that doesn't fit in those buckets.
As my kids got older and one was lost the addiction to drugs seems to be everywhere and I worry these young kids will be lost to this losing war on drugs.
If I could take in every lost child I would. When I see them I see their future and what life they will lead their own family to and think how lost our world is fixing to be.
How do you save someone who doesn't want to be saved? I used to think naively that I just needed to make sure I gave my children the tools they needed to be productive adults but that isn't true because we do not live alone in this world. They will have friends, partners and coworkers who struggle with destructive paths.
After you lose a child you do all you can to make sure someone else avoids this same fate because it is a horrible road to be on and for the life of me I will never understand not intervening. It will always be better to feel like you over did it then live with the guilt of what could you have done different.
As a adult I became obsessed with my daughter's medical condition, work and being a mom. I know that probably sounds not so bad but it is when you push everything and everyone out of your life that doesn't fit in those buckets.
As my kids got older and one was lost the addiction to drugs seems to be everywhere and I worry these young kids will be lost to this losing war on drugs.
If I could take in every lost child I would. When I see them I see their future and what life they will lead their own family to and think how lost our world is fixing to be.
How do you save someone who doesn't want to be saved? I used to think naively that I just needed to make sure I gave my children the tools they needed to be productive adults but that isn't true because we do not live alone in this world. They will have friends, partners and coworkers who struggle with destructive paths.
After you lose a child you do all you can to make sure someone else avoids this same fate because it is a horrible road to be on and for the life of me I will never understand not intervening. It will always be better to feel like you over did it then live with the guilt of what could you have done different.