While drug addiction and its devastating consequences can seem impossible to overcome; and the damage done to self and others can seem overwhelmingly irreparable; it can be done. As the America philosopher, L. Ron Hubbard, wrote in The Way to Happiness– there is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning. This is one such story.
Before Narconon Arrowhead
Before he got to Narconon Arrowhead, David says, “I didn’t really have a life at all.”
For twenty years, he had been abusing drugs– from alcohol to methamphetamine to prescription drugs.
David says he was “living as a blank”, and that he had no emotions at all, and wasn’t experiencing life at all, either.
David Makes a New Beginning
David shares that his first impression of Narconon Arrowhead, located in Arrowhead State Park on the shores of expansive Lake Eufaula in southeastern Oklahoma was what he saw when “coming over the hill–it was incredible; it was beautiful!”
He says he never thought rehab could be something that he might even enjoy. Narconon Arrowhead “was sitting on a beautiful lake, and I thought, ‘Okay. This isn’t prison!’”
He remembers when going into the Drug-Free Withdrawal when he arrived, and says he was scared, as most people are going to be when getting into a situation like that. But he also remembers that “everybody around me was smiling” and him thinking it was strange because, “Nobody is that happy.”
David says that the people in Narconon Arrowhead’s Drug-Free Withdrawal made it incredibly easy for him—“100 percent!”
David shares that he came to realize it wasn’t something wrong with the people at Narconon Arrowhead—it was him! “They were the ones who were normal–it was me who had forgotten how to smile.”
Changes along the Way
He says he thinks the first time he saw a real change in himself was about mid-way through the sauna portion of the Narconon program. He had been, “really, a dead person for twenty years.” He had never even noticed how beautiful things were; or how things smelled. “And as my body cleansed, I came awake.”
And he realized, “I’m a person worthy of living.”
David shares with the reader that he got something from every portion of the Narconon program, but he thinks the other thing that stands-out for him was the day that he learned why he started drugs in the first place. He realized that had he not figured that out, what would have prevented him from doing the same mistakes again?
So those, he says, were the two biggest wins he experienced in the program at Narconon Arrowhead.
David wants the reader to know that now that he’s finished the Narconon program, he can’t even explain how his life is going to change.
“For the first time in my life, I can look anybody in the eyes, and hold my head up high.”
And he knows that now, regardless of what comes upon him in his life; what kind of difficulties he may face—“I can handle them without turning back to drugs.”
David closes by sharing with the reader that he can have a happy, productive life—“for the first time in my life.”
Parting Words
And as that same wise philosopher also wrote in The Way to Happiness, a person can feel at times “like a spinning leaf blown along a dirty street.” But that life is not necessarily a calm or orderly thing: it isn’t. And a person can feel that things are such that it is too late to do anything—that the road is so messed-up there is no chance to draw a future one that will be any different.
But as Mr. Hubbard says, “There is always a point on the road when one can map a new one. And try to follow it.”
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