Unacceptable
My cell phone rang. Trevor called to tell me a hiker had
found Josh’s body in the desert outside of Las Vegas.
Our friend Josh had gotten sober only to pick up an
addiction to gambling. “Apparently he
owed some bad people a lot of money,” Trevor said.
Kahlil Gibran wrote that the deeper sorrow carves into you,
the more joy you can hold. I held onto that notion as waves of grief and anger
washed over me.
For most of the morning I fought the idea that Josh wasn’t
coming back from Vegas, wasn’t going to beat his gambling addiction, wasn’t
going to put his life back on track.
Finally, I accepted the unacceptable. Addictions killed
people, and not just anonymous people, or people I barely knew, not just
celebrities on the news.
Today I may have to accept the unacceptable.
Dogged Determination is a work of fiction. Any similarity between
the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.
Other works by Ken
Montrose are available at: www.greenbriartraining.com https://www.pinterest.com/kenmontrose/mt-rose/
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