Addiction Is A Powerful Force

Addiction is an amazingly powerful thing. It steals the most precious things in life. Like a vine, it wraps its twisted strands around your life and continues to grow, and grow until it takes over everything. Leaving behind only the shell of a person you once were.

Its power is unmatched. Ripping apart families, destroying lives, and  leaving devastation in its wake. A force so strong, that controlling it is nearly impossible. It consumes your mind, body, and soul. Using its power to overcome your thoughts, and steal your logic.

I know about its great power because I have seen it first hand. I have watched this force take away people I love. Like a thief it has come into my life and taken away the mother I should have had. It stole my childhood and robbed me of a life with my siblings. Addiction has touched my life, and changed me forever.

As a child, I did not understand the power of addiction. I did not know that addiction had wrapped its evil hands around my mom with a grip so tight she was no longer in control of her own mind, body or soul, but this is all changed when I became a mom. Once I felt the power of love I had for my own son, I began to realize the enormous power of addiction.

You see my son is my world, and I would give my life for him in an instant. There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for my son. There is never a time I would do something that would purposely hurt my son or put him in harms way. Unfortunately my mom did not feel the same about me. Addiction stole my place in her life. Addiction took her love for me and devoured it. She did things for addiction and not me. She lived for her addiction.   I have to believe that in order for my mom to have done the things she did, the power of addiction must have been even stronger than the love for a child.

Thank you for taking this journey with me. I appreciate your support so much. I hope that getting my story out there can help someone somewhere. Continue to follow me to learn more about this power of addiction.