Drug Rehab
Some folks will tell you that the day you check into drug rehab is the first day of the rest of your life. Of course, they leave out the flipside of the equation: Your first day of drug rehab is also the last day of the addict in you.
Every live drug rehab patient is a dead drug addict. It’s a curious way to conceptualize the thing, but it pretty well hits on the truth: When you check into an drug rehab center, you kill—or at least start killing—the old you, the part of yourself that didn’t want to do anything but use, and didn’t want to be anything but high.
Funny how no one ever seems to cry too hard at the funeral.
Drug rehab, when you really get down to it, is as much about dying as it as about being born. Sure, if you’re going to get sober, you’ve got to breathe life into a new you…but you’ve also got to make worm food out the old you, and commit yourself to keeping him buried for good.
Some ghosts, after all, are too scary to ever see the light of day.
