Reasoning Out Ways To Live

Reasoning Out Ways To Live

By Paul McCann

Fred was always one of the lads who would try anything . He was a happy go lucky fella who always had a laugh at life . He liked a drink and enjoyed taking girls out on dates . Everything in Fred’s life was just too good to be true and you knew that something was going to happen to change all that .

He met up with some friends at work and they offered him some drugs and, in his  eyes, he saw no harm in trying them .  He never stopped to think for a second about the dangers of addiction on hard drugs and how they would become a cruel dictator in his life Fred was still in his teenage years and like a lot of young people today drugs were being offered around in parties other areas on daily living . Some people are more prone to addiction and Fred was one of those who from the first taste of narcotics he was addicted and wanted to have more of the experience it gave him.

He started taking hashish then LSD  and then progressed to some other hallucinogenic drugs called trips, dots, acid . He was being introduced to many drugs buy his dealer the man in the know . the man who made it happen ; the man who didn’t  care about the chemical balance he was providing to Fred metabolism .

After daily use of drug abuse Freds brain was starting to perceive confused thinking which gave Fred an altered state of reality . He was no longer living in reality due to the heavy drug use  .
He had no idea how to tackle the problem and soon was living on a one-way street spiralling down wards on a path of self-destruction .  He was now using new synthetic forms of narcotics that were readily available . He tried mixing those with alcohol that became a concoction known as a death wish .His sanity had gone and in the mad house of life could no longer protect himself or defend his actions because he was seriously addicted to drugs and never knew who he was or what he was doing or even where in the world he was living  .
Fred had decided to use drugs and now the only person who could decide to stop using drugs was Fred and nobody else .
He was aware of what drugs had created in his life . He had lost his job , his savings and his family and friends . He had started breaking and entering homes to get money to feed his addiction . Fred was only 19 and  living on the streets . He had taken a wrong turn and ended up in a bad place  . No one knew how bad things were except Fed and he wanted to go straight m he wanted to escape the world that  drugs had brought him into . He needed advice and he needed help , he started to seek out ways to return back to reality , back to life , back to the place he had left behind a year ago .

Without really knowing where he was Frad found a place to sleep and it was outside the door of a church  . Without even knowing , he was homeless at the doorstep of salvation for some miraculous reason. Call it fate or destiny or juts sheer luck but his road in life was about get turned back around to a straight and narrow path to recovery .
One morning the parish priest himself to Fred in a happy friendly way .

The priest could see the sad state Fred was in realised it must have been due to taking drugs  . Fred was delusional and in need of food and he took Fred inside where he first started to pray for him .

The first few weeks were difficult for the priest and for Fred but slowly Fred was able stop taking the drugs and then with the help of the new friends the priest brought from the detox clinic Fred .

He had experimented with drugs and lost everything he had . The he hit rock bottom and the only way to go was up . He had a lot of good people around him to support him on the journey to recovery . Fred knew he was not alone on this journey and was frequently encouraged by those who prayed for him , fed him and supported him every day with the challenges he was going through .

He didn’t want to return to the dark world of drug addiction and it wasn’t for wimps the choice he had made . Some medication was provided to assist Fred because the nightmare world of withdrawals had only just begun .

Some days he would have to be restrained on a bed for his own safety but he started to notice a young lady there who came every day and sat there beside his bed .

After about three months Fred was coming back to life as a normal person again .

At this point he met the young lady who used to sit by his bedside . Her name was Marie and like Fred she too gad gone through the detox program at the clinic .

The two of them had gone through a similar experience and somehow had found each other and started a friendship that eventually led to them getting engaged .

Fread was now at a point where he was looking for a job . His personality had changed but he was still kind at heart . His new life with his Fiancé  was a somewhere nice and not in a nightmare existence where he had been before .

Both Fread and Marie were still recovering but they had each other and they were committed to staying together in the healing of their emotional experiences .

Both of them were still having regular group therapy but the emotional scars were healing and they were ready to take the final step in their recovery process together and set the date for their wedding day . Noth of then were feeling good about life and they had a strong love that would make the impossible things in life possible and the   daily ritual in a holistic way .  .

Sometimes they were asked to give words of encouragement to patients in the clinic and the message they brought to others was simple , never return to using drugs and find a way back to the real world again.

The End

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