It's Going To Kill You

     Age, color, gender, addiction does not care.  You could be completely committed to your religion, addiction does not care about your faith.  Fame and wealth, addiction could care less.  Addiction only wants attention and it will go to any lengths to get that attention.  In the end it kills indiscriminately and with vengeance.  Whether it kills you directly or indirectly, addiction simply wants you dead.
     Everywhere you turn one can see addiction in one form or another.  It's become an epidemic of epic proportions.   Rarely, no amount of scolding can divert an addict from their inevitable path of destruction.  Only when an addict admits to themselves they are sick and tired of being sick and tired is there ever a glimmer of hope.  But even then an addict's mind tries  to convince them that things are not quite as bad as they seem. They tell themselves when their addiction really causes problems they can always stop using the drug of their choice any time they want to. 
     Those who have never been addicted find it all to easy to wash their hands of an addict and simply come to the conclusion that praying for an addict's salvation is the only thing left to do.  Sometimes salvation can be the only friend  in rooms of recovery  but less than 20% of addicts ever find it.  I was one of the lucky ones and write this article behind twelve and a half years of continuous sobriety but I never forget how bad my life will get if I ever return to addiction.  Sobriety is not something you can put in a box and take it out whenever you want, it has to be looked at everyday.  Being true to thy self is the only way I've been able to stay sober for twelve and a half years.  I am an addict and always will be yet I am no different than any of the  million of addicts in the world.  One way or another the disease will kills us if we don't fully commit ourselves to help when help is offered.  If you are still living a life of addiction, look around and see what you have to lose because if you don't find sobriety, it will be gone sooner than you know. Then, sooner or later, one way or another you will die from the disease of addiction.