Crossroads, is that place in time where you stand back and wonder to yourself, what is the right choice. It can be as simple as whether to salt that big basket full of french fries or not, knowing that you will swell up from it later. Or maybe you can’t decide if you will buy that gorgeous new dress that’s way to expensive because you will look fantastic in it at the dinner party your attending next weekend.
But most of us don’t realize the amount of crossroads or decisions we face everyday of our lives. How much a simple choice can impact our lives for minutes, days or years into the future. How choosing the right spouse or friend will change everything about how we live each day. A lover that for a time was so warm to hold on to now only makes you feel nothing.
Crossroads are a choice… Just as Addiction is a choice. Recovery is a choice…
How do we know if we are making the right choice, without choosing something. So we do and the we face the consequence of that choice. For most of us addicts and alcoholics in active using the choice is apparent and then one day our bodies start to show the effects of this choice. Side effects of the choices we have made and the crossroad of what to do next… continue on because it’s just easier or try something new and hope to repair the damage caused by the choice’s of the past.
That new road to travel a unknown path, again that crossroad in life where only you or I can choose. Is that old lover who now belittles you a healthy part of your existence? Can you heal your failing liver by not drinking anymore? Can you rebuild your life if you just stop using those drugs that are polluting your entire body?
Crossroads are choices in life which hold consequences daily that we must answer to eventually. Recovery is a crossroad for many people and I hope today you can find it in you, to want to follow a new road.
Blessings, Rose
T. Rose Recovery/Addiction Support 