Split Decision: Was 2020 your personal worst year ever?
The Year 2020 has offered unimaginable challenges as COVID-19 rampaged Mother Earth.
Most difficult year or worst of times? Not by a long shot. Life remains awesome as acceptance paves the way for sanity.
By the way, nothing like a pandemic to understand humanity and that as individuals, we all share a world.
My addiction years were incredibly hurtful. Alcoholism and drug addiction is part of our family history and once engaged — amazing rollercoaster conditions developed.
Lost a really good wife and broke up a family during my worst year. Lived in a car for another year — lost. Ended a first great job with really good people in my corner and suffered the unavoidable loss of self.
There were times when a mirror offered no reflection. The man had disappeared almost to the point of Bruce Springsteen’s intro to the Streets of Philadelphia.
“Bruised and battered” to the point of being “unrecognizable” to one’s self lists as an unfortunate destination for many people with addictions.
Yes, the bad choices were mine and ownership remains key to improvement. Addiction, and those desires that track toward myriad topics, expanded my circle.
Brothers and sisters of addiction come in all colors, ethnicities, religious groups, socioeconomic backgrounds, etc.
Those troubled years offered perspective and confrontation with many personal defects that contribute to addiction.
Coronavirus represents just another curtain raised on life’s grand stage. Life on life’s terms means just dealing with the next episode.
Plus, the pandemic made life more valuable and people extremely grateful for getting another day. Of course, hearts open to those who lost their lives via COVID-19, gun violence, suicide and addiction.
This year produced appreciation for life’s simplest pleasures, especially our health.
Missed all the positive life activities, especially being in the safe presence of people, and hated wearing a mask or forgetting a mask. The coronavirus created plenty of down time and many hours alone.