What life is really like the first year sober, and then after the pink cloud dissipates, what is left. I wanted to touch on a different rehab process. They go into a “pink cloud” era–and that’s it right there–no matter what, that’s sure to end. There’s the 30 – 90 days of rehabilitating, the flashbacks to the highs that brought them there, then the part where the rehabilitation happens. I have read so many recovery & addiction memoirs–and every one ends exactly the same. What inspired you to pen your memoir, Addictarium? Provide a new and different angle, vision, an abstraction–a translation, if you will–of what we call LIFE. All we have left then, are scraps of experiences crumpled up, torn, ripped, beat up–our souls–and, baring those souls to the world. So what does the street kid have? There isn’t college tuition, no mapped out future, no knowing one’s place in the world. No refinemnent, no education, is going to negate that. I’m a street kid, an impoverished wild child at heart, and always will be in certain ways. This is a way to turn my work into a reflection of that. No matter how sloppy or messy, or horrid, or plain out awful some of these things may seem like to other people, to me they are all part of the experience we call life–the experience–the gift, the hell also,–that it is. And, two–to turn my life into a work of art. The inspiration for all of my work, and especially so with Addictarium, is two main things one, first and foremost to tell the truth. What is the driving force behind your choice to become a writer?
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