“Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in you life and your behavior decides who stays in your life.”
- Unknown

I learned today why people in as messed up a place as I got are best not having access to their friends and loved ones back home during a rehabilitation. I am somewhat ashamed to admit I never paused to think about it in this light either. It is because they become what is termed an 'accidental counsellor' to you. Because they're close to you, it is easier for you to offload to them, to blame them, even, to expect of them to be there for you when you are supposed to be relying on your team of professionals in this facility to get the proper help you need. A war can't be won by one person, it takes an army. And how can you win if you're too busy fighting your allies? The people I love are my allies, and the enemy is the drugs and booze. The counsellors, they're the strategists. The one's who give you and your loved ones the battle plan. This analogy was the first one that made sense to me in a very long time.

( To lay it on your loved ones when they aren't equipped to deal or even understand what you're going through, it's unfair... )

Cole Carrington
( original character )

WORD:

Essential
adj. 1. absolutely necessary; indispensable. 2. pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing.


QUOTE:

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.