When does life go from easy, playful, innocent fun where we have no worries to turning into an existence of intoxication?
When really does that happen? Is it when we reach puberty? Turn 13, or maybe 16 or 18? Perhaps it happens when we are even younger, like at 4 years old? Or when we are 23, and life is good. You just graduated college, have been offered the job of a lifetime, got your first apartment, and have met the love of your life.
But in one sharp fast second everything changes. Forever. You and your other half are driving home from going out for dinner and seeing a movie when a SUV comes crashing into your car, glass is flying, ripping into your flesh, blood is flowing, all you hear is screams and cries of pain, fear and panic.
The driver of the SUV was intoxicated, she claimed she never saw the car. Imagine that, what a shock that is? It turns out the female driver is a mother of one, and a business owner. Which raises the question: why was she intoxicated? And why was she behind the wheel? She has what others can only dream of, and she just drinks it away.
Because she is addicted to alcohol, she loves the bottle far more then she loves her life, or the lives of her children and has no respect for the safety of others. That is an addict.
I am sure we all have known or know an addict. Moi has known a few people, relatives, friends, and acquaintances. Experts say it is an illness, a disease, others feel it is a choice that one makes about their life.
The two people in the car, well one barely survived, and the other person spent 9 months in a coma. To this day, the drunk driver is still out there doing what she does best, drinking.
Tell me this…why is she driving, and why is she a mother?
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