My idol brit
Whitney
Lindsay
Mariah
James Frey - A Million Little PiecesImagine waking up on a plane with no idea where you have been or where you are going. Imagine that your front teeth are missing, your nose is broken and there is a gash on your cheek. Imagine that you have no wallet, no money, no job. Imagine that you have been an alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three.
What would you do?
Above is an excerpt from a memoir that I have been reading. I don’t know what’s gotten into me that I have decided to write about alcoholics and addicts. I guess I was just touch by the life story of the character in the memoir, it made me even cry. A life destroyed and a life reconstructed. Or maybe because I’m such a fan of Britney Spears following her every moves or it might be because a friend of mine who suffered the same fate as the story and he wanted me to write about it. Whatever it is, I say, those reasons are just the right reasons.
Almost everyday we hear, see & read more and more of those celebrities or even ordinary citizens suffer all of the same reasons; abused of alcohol and drugs, not knowing that every move they make slowly break their lives beyond repair.
Britney, Whitney, Lindsay, Mariah, Robbie, Mel, Ben and the list goes on and on and on. What do these celebrities have in common? Needless to say, they all are victims of their own transgression. They all have gone from rehab, in and out. What makes them different from the rest of us is that they are public figure; their every move, wrong false move followed, criticized. Probably the same mistakes an ordinary individual made but just aren’t publicized.
They say, when you've achieved greatness and the highest level of success, you feel more and more invincible. There's this feeling of 'I did it.' People like what I do. They support me. They take risks because they feel invincible.
Like some lines of a popular song years back, “What has life to offer me when I grow old? What’s there to look forward to beyond the biting cold? They say it’s difficult, yes stereotypical” Yes, what has life to offer them after every storm? After every struggle? After every nightmare?
AA meetings, the 12-step, accepting the severity of ones condition & HOPE, might just be the answer.
"Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders: not a temperance society. They know that they must never drink. They help others with similar problems...In this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself. Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day. The days add up into weeks, the weeks into months and years.
Personally, I have gone through a rebellious stage in my life. I have experienced how to drink, to smoke or whatever’s out there, BUT I can proudly say that I am not hopelessly alcoholic of some sort. I always believe it’s just a matter of self-control and discipline. Focus on what really matter, if you don’t want to end up ruining your life like those high-profiled celebrities out there.
No matter how tragic or how devastating one’s life can be, it is essential for us to have hope. This is the one thing that we should cling on. It’s never too late to straighten up one’s mistakes, learn from those mistakes, pick-up the pieces, get sober and live life like a normal person free & abstaining oneself from substances i.e. alcohol etc, etc.
NOW…..the question is!!!
What would you do if your life vanished before your eyes?
And the most important question is, when can you say that you’re done drinking, that you’re done being a crack-head?
The answer is all up to you!
What would you do?
Above is an excerpt from a memoir that I have been reading. I don’t know what’s gotten into me that I have decided to write about alcoholics and addicts. I guess I was just touch by the life story of the character in the memoir, it made me even cry. A life destroyed and a life reconstructed. Or maybe because I’m such a fan of Britney Spears following her every moves or it might be because a friend of mine who suffered the same fate as the story and he wanted me to write about it. Whatever it is, I say, those reasons are just the right reasons.
Almost everyday we hear, see & read more and more of those celebrities or even ordinary citizens suffer all of the same reasons; abused of alcohol and drugs, not knowing that every move they make slowly break their lives beyond repair.
Britney, Whitney, Lindsay, Mariah, Robbie, Mel, Ben and the list goes on and on and on. What do these celebrities have in common? Needless to say, they all are victims of their own transgression. They all have gone from rehab, in and out. What makes them different from the rest of us is that they are public figure; their every move, wrong false move followed, criticized. Probably the same mistakes an ordinary individual made but just aren’t publicized.
They say, when you've achieved greatness and the highest level of success, you feel more and more invincible. There's this feeling of 'I did it.' People like what I do. They support me. They take risks because they feel invincible.
Like some lines of a popular song years back, “What has life to offer me when I grow old? What’s there to look forward to beyond the biting cold? They say it’s difficult, yes stereotypical” Yes, what has life to offer them after every storm? After every struggle? After every nightmare?
AA meetings, the 12-step, accepting the severity of ones condition & HOPE, might just be the answer.
"Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders: not a temperance society. They know that they must never drink. They help others with similar problems...In this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself. Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day. The days add up into weeks, the weeks into months and years.
Personally, I have gone through a rebellious stage in my life. I have experienced how to drink, to smoke or whatever’s out there, BUT I can proudly say that I am not hopelessly alcoholic of some sort. I always believe it’s just a matter of self-control and discipline. Focus on what really matter, if you don’t want to end up ruining your life like those high-profiled celebrities out there.
No matter how tragic or how devastating one’s life can be, it is essential for us to have hope. This is the one thing that we should cling on. It’s never too late to straighten up one’s mistakes, learn from those mistakes, pick-up the pieces, get sober and live life like a normal person free & abstaining oneself from substances i.e. alcohol etc, etc.
NOW…..the question is!!!
What would you do if your life vanished before your eyes?
And the most important question is, when can you say that you’re done drinking, that you’re done being a crack-head?
The answer is all up to you!
5 comments:
i remember those days when we are both active in toastmastering. we exchange composition and asking feedbacks of some sort. good that in some ways you manage to practice what we have learned from it through your blogs. it is very commendable. if i would rate you i would give you five stars (taken from delfin's style... hehehe). 1st star for the impeccability of thoughts where in your ideas where presented sequentially. 2nd star for the right choice of words. appropriate words make the story even more interesting. 3rd star for the courage to post this kind of topic which many readers will be affected by it. hopefully it will give them time to think that vices will not do good to anyone including you. 4th for bringing yourself closer to whoever will be reading your blog. we may not be as good as helen keller or any other writers but with this it seems that you opening not just your door but also the windows of you soul (choz) and lastly the 5th for the message. every few blogs where you get something after reading and yours' one of them.
thanks mel for taking time to share your thought sa post ko. u know how much these means to me. first time ko sa blogspot and i got this kahabaang comment from u. thank you din for commenting the toastmasters way.
comments like this makes me wanna improve more.
Thanks again mel.
your toastmasters family have been missing you much. why don't you pay a visit if opportunity come your way?
your toastmasters family have been missing you much. drop sometime if opportunity comes your way.
you know how much effort we have exerted nung toastmasters days natin just to deliver speeches almost everyweek.
but right now, i dont think i could still do that. alam mo naman i had to work day and night. so yeah...
Anyway, toastmasters will always be remembered. i had learned so much from it.
tnx mel.
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