We all have dreams. It is the stardust on the ordinary and sometimes mundane tasks of living life. When we are children, the dreams know no limit, and are as grand and as fanciful as our imaginative minds can make them to be. As we grow to adulthood and incur its obligations, and experience its challenges and stresses, our dreams tend to diminish, or even fall by the wayside. But the true death knell of a person’s dreams is substance abuse and addiction. And the finality of the death of those dreams is surely known to every addict.
Drugs Cause Death of a Dream
For a young man named Mike George, the death of his dream began when he became addicted to drugs. For years, he experienced the “revolving door” of jail and drug rehabs, which is such a common pattern in the life of a substance abuser. It is the pattern that engenders hopelessness and untold heartache for both the addict, and those who love and care about him and his future.
Then, seven years ago, Mike experienced the extreme good fortune of his family finding the Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program on the Internet. In their wisdom, they asked that Mike try the program, and in his wisdom, he agreed. It was those events which brought him all the way from Pennsylvania to Narconon Arrowhead in Canadian, Oklahoma.
Once enrolled in the rehab program, Mike realized it was designed to help him not only break free from drugs and addiction, but to actually help him succeed in his life. In going through the Narconon program, Mike learned the life skills necessary to facing and overcoming obstacles, rather than hiding from them, or masking them with drug use. The realization that he was able be in control of his life and the decisions he chose to make, enabled him to restore his relationships with family members, and to once again head in the direction of achieving his lifelong dream, to have his own restaurant business.
A Dream Come True
In May of this year, in the small Oklahoma town of Crowder, not far from Narconon Arrowhed, a dream came true. Mike George opened his restaurant, Georgeo’s Pizza. The 25th of May marked its Grand Opening, and Georgeo’s began serving Pittsburg, Pennsylvania- style authentic Italian food. Georgeo’s Pizza specializes in the traditional hand-tossed style of homemade pizza, and the menu includes calzones, hoagies, and other delicious Italian offerings. Mike keeps the doors open daily throughout the week, from 11:00 A.M. until 9:00 P.M., Monday through Friday. Georgeo’s Pizza also has a FaceBook Page at https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeosPizza, and you are welcome to visit, find out more about Mike’s restaurant, and sign-up as a FaceBook friend, if you would like to.
Again, Mike gives credit to what he learned on the Life Skills part of the rehab program, giving him the tools to improve the conditions in his life. He used what he learned in making the decision to remain at Narconon Arrowhead after graduating the program so that he could help others achieve a drug-free life. And in the six years since that decision, Mike has been accomplishing that goal. While working at the Narconon Arrowhead center, he used the skills he learned while on the program to conceive of and draft his business plan and budget for Georgeo’s Pizza. According to Mike, he is happy to give back to the people of Oklahoma, the state he has now called home for seven years.
Mike George’s story is a real life dream-come-true story. A young man who was once a drug addict has now started his own family, is a self-made entrepreneur and business owner, and is stably on his path of achieving his lifelong goals. It is also a Narconon Arrowhead story, one of so many real life dream-come-true stories in which men and women of all ages and from all walks of life, each with their own dreams, completed the Narconon drug rehabilitation program at Arrowhead, and have gone on to live their dreams.
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