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RE: My introduction; Riches to rags. A recovering alcoholic. What I lost and what I gained.
Touched by your experience.
Thanks for sharing this.
I won't give any advice for the next steps as I never lived what you lived. I just wish you the best of what can give you each day to come.
One thing I can see from where I'm sitting, from a naive creative point of view : your experience could build both strong character and story if you transferred them in a fictive narration...
I don't know if you're the creative kind, but if yes, have you thought about writing ? :)
Hello!
Thank you so much for the compliment and kind words. That means a lot to me!
I believe that I am somewhat creative and writing is something I’ve thought about doing. I just never knew how to go about it.
I’ve journaled on/off but never stuck with it daily. This site is pretty interesting to me because random people can actually read my posts.
If you have any ideas on what I should do, I’m all ears.
XOXO
I wouldn't be the best advisor at writing, but I guess that building two opposite characters, one being all that you don't want to be anymore and the other one being who you aim to become.
You tie both together and put them in situations they'd have to get out, each with his own mindset.
On one side you have the experience to describe that "former you", which could be a good way to see yourself from a distance, and on the other side, that unkown "future you" who would be hard to describe, but I think would also be a constructive experience.
Even if you don't like what you write, those fictive characters could help you find the words designing what to leave and where to go, and could build some intersting story if you let your imagination go wild :D
Very interesting and thanks for the advice. Sounds like it could almost be fun to write when you put it that way😊
You're welcome :)
Even dramatic experience can be seen afterward with a bit of humour, as long as it doesn't lead to self-punishment or excessive self-mockery.
That "future you" has to find the nice way to go despite the "former one" trying to divert and slow her down... A bit like these scenes in movies with two opposite-minded prisoners tied together and trying to escape from jail :)