Addiction isn’t some epic battle where you face off against a dragon, one sword swing away from either glorious victory or brutal defeat. It’s not like that at all. It’s much slower, much more insidious. Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive moment, some big dramatic event that marks the end. No, we are beaten one tiny surrender at a time. It’s those small, almost invisible moments that slowly chip away at who we really are. You don’t even notice it happening at first. It’s like erosion; a little piece of you gets worn away, then another, and another, until one day you look in the mirror and barely recognize the person staring back.
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