Siobhan

This piece is about the aimlessness of addiction and how it crosses every path we choose to take. Although we are on our own path with intention, hope, goals and faith, we can never be on it alone. Addiction permeates through every relationship we have, imprinting its ugliness into each one.

I have felt so torn and powerless, watching people I love take the path of addiction. It’s heavy…feeling like you want to give them the world and not knowing how. I give so much of myself—time, resources, advice and yet all I end up feeling is walked on, used, and hurt. Like I’m being pulled in so many directions at once…beneath every person’s darkness there is fiery light.

It’s up to us to choose to see that beauty in everyone, no matter where they are on their path.