FINDING NEW LIFE
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Create the incentives and your behavior will follow suit. I remember so many times that I tried to avoid drinking with a lot of effort — proposing a distance transformed into time. I set the space in my mind to stop drinking for at least a month. And how well I look through the process! The change […]
Life Is Like A Boat *And If We Don’t Row Together* We’re Not Going Anywhere In these difficult pandemic times, it was easy to feel trapped and isolated from what was happening to others. In reality, we were all looking for a way to sustain and protect our homes and ourselves from collapsing. All social operating systems […]
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 […]
Wherever We Put Our Energies And Our Attention, Those Things Will Develop One day, sitting on a sidewalk, I felt great pressure on my chest observing the liquor bottle I was holding; I had an internal dialogue. How can it be possible that knowing the damage you have caused me…I still accept you in my life? […]
One Advises Me To Make “GOOD DECISIONS” While The Other Contradicts Many of you already know, I was an alcoholic for twenty years — only God knows why I’m still alive — and in chronic condition for the last five that led me to homelessness. After my miraculous recovery — more on that later — I decided to discover the “why” of things. Especially — for good […]
No Cometas El Error De Comenzar A Ciegas La vida es impredecible, y muchas veces recibiremos golpes que nos dejarán mirando el cielo estrellado. Habrá situaciones fuera de nuestro control, y si no tenemos una base sólida, será difícil mantenerse erguido. Recuerdo un día, me informaron sobre una competencia de construcción de castillos de arena […]
