The Battle of The Addict’s Mind

How to stop feeding the bad desires of our habits “Our problem is not drifting into bad habits but the routines created around them.” On more than one occasion, when I thought I had a well-laid-out plan. All coldly calculated. Like watching a 3D movie, I realized I would ruin all my proposed plans. I […]

Practical Steps to Overcoming Addictions

The first step is to accept that you have a problem These steps are my guide based on my personal experience. And my resume of experience has all levels of alcoholism and drug addiction. From hidden to casual and social, all the way to homelessness. And all because I wanted to be floating in space […]

Cómo Superar El Alcoholismo

El primer paso hacia la recuperación es aceptar que tienes un problema Estos pasos están basados en mi experiencia personal. Y mi resumen de experiencias tiene todos los niveles de alcoholismo. Desde hacerlo a escondidas hasta lo casual y social, hasta que llegué a quedar en la calle (indigente). Y todo porque siempre andaba detrás […]

Why Is It So Easy to Slip Back Into Bad Habits?

We won’t stop slipping back until we hate its outputs. Even to the astonishment of the human being, the most incredible evolution has been to develop consciousness, aside from straightening up and walking on two feet. It is rationalizing and interpreting our surroundings with the power of intelligence. The hardest part for humans is understanding […]

Escaping The Whirlpool Of Homelessness

Only Persistence manages to escape the gravitational force of attraction. This morning, I decided to walk downtown to find the direction for my writing thoughts. I like to take long walks, especially where addictions and despair previously dragged me down. I’m wary of the gravitational force of attraction from which I escape. Those places are […]

Don’t Let Your Inner Desires Destroy Your Exterior Life.

You don’t need to lose everything to learn to be responsible for what you have. Pleasures seduce human beings by nature, but many of them have no benefit other than satisfying carnal passions and exciting our senses with mental surges of dopamine. I start with this deduction to understand why our mental balance leans more […]

A Proven Strategy To Recover Your Life

The first Life-Lesson helped me to get off the ground As babies, we learn to walk through stumbles and falls, but after all the tears are over, we get back up and try again; until we get a hold on learning how to walk. As soon as we get momentum after many attempts — we become unstoppable. […]

Why Do I Keep Stumbling Over the Same Bad Habits?

Could it be that I’m secretly in love with bad behaviors? It was five in the afternoon, the day was mild, and my comrades were already gathered having fun. I kept trying to stay away from addictions, even covering my ears and closing my eyes to not see how everyone seemed to enjoy life “supposedly.” At […]

“A Walk On The Train Tracks”

The Mystic Attraction To Take A Walk On The Quiet tracks I was walking on the busy avenue where MIT and HARVARD students collide frequently (Central Square.) Sometimes for shopping in the exotic stores or simply to hang out at a wide-open no-windows bar. Many people were walking down the subway, others passing by, and the […]

The Sad Reality Of Homelessness “Everyone Wants To Ignore”

The People That Lost The Willpower To Break Free From Physical And Mental Bondage Every day that I walk, either to the train station or the nearest cafeteria, it has become almost impossible not to stop bumping into beggars wandering around. People with different characters. Some are courteous who open the doors for you, and […]