Struggling with urges today (day 27 for me)... I've been reading through some online blogs and found this heartbreaking and very poignant tribute page on Shatterproof (www.shatterproof.org/mylastphoto). I am not yet 40, and yet most of the people on this page were much younger than I am when they passed. Most from heroin or similar. Sure you might be thinking, but alcohol isn't like heroin. True enough. We know alcohol can kill, but it's a slow kill. What really hit home for me, was how so many of these memorials were written by mothers. I know that my quitting alcohol isn't just for me not to drink. It's for my kids to have a good role model. I know that if I keep it up, my children just might start down that path themselves. And scary hard drugs are so accessible these days. Kids can get them. So many of these young people started with alcohol and ended in opiate overdose...
