And if you have to hurt someone to get what you need? Then you’ll need to imagine a worse action you could have taken to soften the blow against your conscious. At least we gave them reservations. At least we didn’t nuke Iraq.
We’re always rational & benevolent
In the end our victims deserve what they had coming, if only because they happen to not be us.
We Are Right
Always. In all ways. There will always be a reason to continue using. And so the cycle continues, from the micro to the macro. One doesn’t become an addict instantly.
The lies they tell themselves along the way hide the inhumanity of the journey until by the end of their path they are doing things they couldn’t ever imagine doing at the start.
Like
felony larceny
At this time in my friendship with our other side of addiction I had graduated from insurance in SoCal to real estate in Manhattan. I was only hearing from her sporadically.
After the suicide attempt I made my peace with the fact that each haphazard communication might be the last I heard from her.
Then she said she wanted to get clean.
