If you are not someone who suffers from drug or alcohol addiction you should not only thank God for not cursing you with this affliction. You should withhold judgment of those people who are. At least keep that judgment to yourself. It drives me crazy when I see the Facebook post that comes up once a week on my timeline in one form or another. I’m not on drugs, Addiction not a disease it’s a choice, Addicts get free whatever but cancer patients have to pay, ect, ect…Not sure if it’s to make the person that posted feel better about themselves. Possibly to remind their families that they could be worse. Hell, I don’t really know because my first Facebook or social media in general post was about just getting out of rehab and deciding to change my life. That was September of 2014. My entire recovery has been documented on my multiple social media accounts and my life before finding recovery didn’t have time, care, or knowledge to post on social media and had I the life I lived from 1994-2014 was not something I was proud of and definitely didn’t want to share it with people from my past, family, or friends. I was incarcerated half of the time and trying to get incarcerated the other half. Even in inrecovery I am never far from relapse and total self destruction. Longest stretch is 6 months completely clean and average about 3-4 months between relapses but I have yet to give up and every day I fight this fucking affliction I was born with. I hope that by openly and honestly sharing my daily thoughts and struggles someone who doesn’t understand their family members addiction will see the things we go through and struggle with every single day. Hopefully that person is a friend of mine on Facebook and decides to not post the thing he was going to that puts those fighting addiction down and himself above them. Then it will be one less that goes across my timeline and this entire blog will be worth it in my eyes. That is my goal with this blog. Reach 1 person from my friends list and change their mind and instead of Post they delete the shit they were going to say and it never gets to my timeline. An easy goal but one I may never know for sure if I hit but I’m a confident man and am going to believe that A Day In The Life already reached that goal on day 1 and everything from here on is exceeding my goals and expectations.