How I regret having accepted what someone who claimed to be my friend proposed to me!: going on 8 years of binge!! What was I thinking to accept what has finally ruined my life? How did I not...
How I regret having accepted what someone who claimed to be my friend proposed to me!: going on
8 years of binge!!
What was I thinking to accept what has finally ruined my life?
How did I not realize that that path would lead me to perdition?
I was healthy, I didn't smoke or drink, I had a job, I had no debts and I enjoyed a
great prestige among those around me. I had it all.
One damn day, I met a nice guy who had a captivating demeanor. He was a
kind of snake charmer who hypnotized me. We both had fun, we
laughed and I began to change my behavior. Without realizing it, I trivialized my day to day,
I modified the rules that until that moment had served me for my successful
trajectory and I lost values. My only reference became what that guy told me
who was posing as a friend.
I found myself immersed in the "anything goes" and in the "nothing happens". I started smoking, drinking,
overeating and staying up late. All that made me feel invulnerable, unlimited,
invincible!
It was 8 years in which I smoked thousands of "champion league", in which I drank
entire barrels of "we have the most solid financial system in the world" and in which
I ate tons of "green shoots". The unbridled bacchanals caused me to
lose harmony with my family and friends. The trust that I had always
enjoyed with my neighbors turned into tension and suspicion.
My behavior became compulsive and unreflective and, as it could not be otherwise
way, the inevitable consequences arrived: I got sick.
I was diagnosed with cancer, my savings disappeared, I became indebted and I lost my
job. The image of a winner that I projected shortly before had vanished.
Now I am immersed in a deep sadness and the only thing that encourages me is the company
of someone who sincerely cares about my present and my future. I'm sure
that this is a true friend because he has approached me in the worst
moment of my existence, offering me help and trying to solve the serious
problems that I suffer. He talks to me about getting a job, about not spending more than the little
that I have, to recover my image and prestige and to treat the cancer that I have
developed.
Precisely regarding the latter, cancer, my friend insists that I urgently
start some very hard treatments: chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It seems that
the side effects are devastating but it is the only way to avoid my
death. I'm going to listen to him and I'm going to try. I'm sure I'm going to suffer but I assume it
because I want to live.
By the way, one never stops losing the capacity for surprise. It turns out that the guy
whose influence led me to the brink of death, the guy who should be
begging me for forgiveness for the rest of my life, and his, for allowing my economic ruin and
for sinking my morale, that guy tries with all his influence to prevent me from undergoing the
treatment that my great friend recommends!
Luckily we are not going to pay any attention to him!!
By Sigfrid Soria del Castillo-Olivares
NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
POPULAR PARTY
