The universe gave us the gift of pain so that we could survive in a world that is sometimes challenging to live in. For example, I didn't get sober and change until life became too painful.
And you might say - if you're not an alcoholic or addict - that you thought that alcohol and drugs took away pain. And to a point you may be right. But the kind of pain I'm referring to is the overriding spiritual pain that saturates your whole being, Pain that seeps into one's bones and every organ of the body. The kind of pain that we can only escape by drinking or drugging ourselves further into unconsciousness. Only to wake up and start the vicious cycle once again. After a certain point there's nothing that can kill the pain of addiction except for complete abstinence. That's how it happened for me.
Now some of us have to go through the cycle of quitting and relapsing over and over before we finally get the idea that the only way to shed our pain is to abstain - and so we do. Then we can luxuriate in the kind of life our creator intended for us.
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