sometimes, you have to let people hold on extremely tight to your past. What an asshole you were. How many drugs you did. And any of their own personal made up judgments.
There is no such thing as reasoning with people who only know put downs. Because truly that’s all they know to throw at you. It just doesn’t come in any other form but irony and ridiculousness…
And why should you be okay with someone who has made up your past for you, bringing it up currently? Because they need it, require it, and embrace it. Since you’re not using your past anymore. Let them have it. Don’t be selfish…
as an ex addict. My job, is to keep moving forward…and if I happen to slip up, and reach out to my past? I have to take any and all of the bile that billows up from it. I have to take responsibility for any and all ugly and grotesque that comes from anyone after reaching back. That’s my lesson, that’s my job…and if it turns in to a practice of letting go, then that’s the silver lining…whether I like it, or not.
The End.