Good Things Shall Pass Too, but That’s OK

I’ve been having a lot of ups and downs this last week, and I haven’t been able to figure out why, but then it hit me like a big of bricks to the face. I had this epiphany, and this resulted in some clarity about why I’ve been feeling the way I’ve been feeling, and maybe you can relate. Something I teach others but I had forgotten was that when people say, “This too shall pass,” we never think about how the good things will pass as well.

For the last five years, my life has been going incredible, and it’s something that I’m truly grateful for. See, seven years ago I was a hopeless drug addict and alcoholic who had a 10% chance of living. I was laying in the cardiac critical care unit of UMC hospital here in Las Vegas when my mom got the phone call to come to town because I might not live through the night. By the time of my rock bottom, I had lost everything. I had no friends, no family, no job, no car, no money, and I wasn’t even allowed to see my son. Through all of this, I also had no willingness to live.

Luckily, my mom who was seven years sober at the time ended up saving my life by giving me the ultimatum to get sober or live on the hot summer streets of Las Vegas. I traveled to Fresno, California, with her and moved into a sober living where I’d create a strong foundation of sobriety and find the will to live again. Through hearing the…