Being in a drug or alcohol rehab program is often the result of many, many decisions, events, circumstances and random chance.  This can lead to a "story".  Stories are often filled with many sad, cruel and unfair events.  Drug and alcohol abuse is often justified by the person explaining he or she is a victim of the past.

While in the "victim" mentality, the person may waste more and more of their life looking for a reason.  They are often looking for closure.  The problem is often the reason is never a good enough reason, to satisfy them.  However the real truth is that most people are doing the best they can at any particular moment.  There are no real victims.  This is not to say there are not negative or bad things happening in peoples lives.  But the person themselves must make the label of victim.  The person themselves must make the label of loser, or the label of being decieved.  The events of the world come with no labels.  They are just there. 

Victims lock their lives in the past.  The solution is to create meanings and labels that empower yourself with out judging others and making them wrong.  Examine the quality of your efforts in a situation, not the results or the efforts of others.  You have the right to assign any meaning you want to any event in your life.  Choose positive ones and move on to a new and  more empowered life.

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