“It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.” HealingGrowingAddictionMental IllnessRecoveryCopingHeroinDrug Addiction Author:Ann Marlowe
“Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.” DeathFearAddictionNostalgiaRecoveryAddiction RecoveryTime Aging Author:Ann Marlowe