Pain

This morning I woke with a pain in my back. Not a terrible pain, just a niggling, gripping one that appears when I change position. My instinct was to get painkillers. But then I thought: No. There’s obviously something broken here, and if I numb it I might damage it …

Implosion

Some days, I feel like I’m looking for an excuse to self-destruct. People go off the wagon, drink to excess, hide themselves away from the world, snap at everyone around them until there’s nobody left to care. And there are times when I feel all that’s holding me back from …