This isn’t about addiction.

They say addiction is about the drug.
It’s not. It’s about the hole the drug filled.
The quiet. The ache. The thing no one saw.

Nobody wakes up and chooses to self-destruct.
They just get tired of surviving without a crutch.
Tired of pretending. Tired of “I’m fine.”
And for a few hours… the chaos was quiet.

But when the high fades, the shame rolls in.
Now you’re not just broken — you’re branded.
Family judges you. Friends pull back.
You get called an addict instead of a survivor.

This isn’t about weakness.
It’s about pain no one helped you carry.

This canvas?
This is a marker.
That you made it out alive.
That you’ve got nothing to prove — and everything to rebuild.

Thorns and Tenderness
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