Human beings struggle with one form of addiction or another and it’s not easy to overcome an addiction.
A friend of mine introduced me to the party scene where an ordinary night out would start with a glass of wine and we would just have some fun, eat and go home and basically this became a routine .What actually changed was the amount of wine I had since I took more and more to feel a bit of high.
Life has its way of surprising us and due to the more frequency of consumption of alcohol, our friendship broke and now I would go to the bar by myself and switched to stronger spirits since the wine no longer gave me a kick.
Consumption of alcohol when it reaches its peak can make an individual not eat, or bath or even care about anything else but having that drink.
Apparently I would meet a person at a certain venue and we would chat when I was drunk but on meeting them when somber would not even remember having met them. Walking dead becomes a reality in that on waking up the following morning, I would not remember how I got home.
Alcohol on its own has its good value but when abused can be a lethal weapon. It can humiliate and bring an individual to bankrupsy. I lost count of the number of times that I fell over and got scars that are still a reminder of the damage I inflicted on myself.
Someone who has never been addicted to alcohol will never know that it’s a sickness and someone needs help to overcome it. My everyday recommendation is that if you have never consumed it then don’t start because you might be in the few percent that gets addicted, and if you do consume it, please learn your limit and stick to it.
I am very thankful to a particular friend who did not give up on me and even went to an extent of going with me as I had my drink and waited patiently until I was able to overcome that addiction no judgment offered.
What is your addiction?
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