What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
It’s simple, not necessarily easy, but the rewards are endless.
Addiction is when you can’t get enough of what you don’t want any more.
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.
It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.
Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.
I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.
Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Not why the addiction, but why the pain.
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
But I’ve also learned I am not powerless over some things. I am not powerless over my attitudes. I am not powerless over negativity. I am not powerless over assuming responsibility for my own recovery.