So you shared your face with us, but what makes you YOU?

[zina10]

Craig,
You are amazing, you know that ? You have literally went rock bottom and below, yet you survived. So many do not. You have went beyond the point of no return, but here you are. Your core is pure steel. To be able to come back from that, turn it around, it must have been monumentally difficult, esp. in the shape you were in.
Your story is also a love story. For your mom to have been able to do what she did, it was the ultimate gift of love. As a mother I know that this was the hardest thing she ever did. It also speaks of your deep bond with her that this reached deep within you, woke you up.
Your honesty is also a testament to your character. You want to reach out and help the ones that have given up on themselves. So many addicts, even recovering ones, are not even honest to themselves. They don't want people to know, because they want that backdoor open, to slip through unnoticed.
I'm so glad that you were strong enough to turn your life around and that you are strong enough to continue living it.

Speaking of WW2, I too like to read and hear about it. Having had family that lived through the horrors and in their old age would reveal more and more about it, I always felt it wasn't that far off, it seemed very real. It blows me away when I realize what people endured, the horror of it. The waste. I always knew my great aunt (when she was alive) was mentally sick. But I didn't know until much later why. When my grandmother and the rest of the family ran from the Russians, literally ran for their lives in the dark, through deep snow, my Great Aunt lost one of her babies. She had given birth only the day before to twins. They ran, carrying kids in their arms. My Great Aunt had one child in her arms while pushing and pulling the old stroller with the twins in it. In the panic and confusion, one of the twins must have fallen out of the stroller. In dark woods and high snow. They couldn't find it, and they had to keep running. She never recovered from that. Just some tragic stories from people caught in the middle of it.