{"id":1617,"date":"2025-10-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:32:52","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-october-21st-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days October 21st by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-551741cdb4b4efe03723a18ea0225230\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f8ed101762af1b26fb2bc4018e0c7643\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4c4221a0dad19d1bba7fde8bfc3ce0d3\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4ce7e44632701871df57d15315a18892\"><strong><br>Opiate addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2072fcebfbf1dab943f53fa4eb3853e9\"><strong><br>The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on this<br>day in 1772. Addicted to opium as a young man, he<br>never managed to free himself from its clutches. His<br>great works Kubla Khan and the Rime of the<br>Ancient Mariner, were written under the influence of<br>opiates but his creativity declined markedly soon<br>afterwards. He spent the last 18 years of his life<br>living quite isolated, in the house of his doctor in<br>London. His creativity had withered. Do I<br>remember that drugs are never a solution for my<br>inner conflict?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-09ecbad4191bb9f9c623f2de3390c44f\"><strong><em>Non est vivere, sed valere vita est. Martial.<br>(Life is not just living, but living as if life<br>matters.)<\/em><br>The worst thing about taking drugs is that<br>they control you. Drug dependence stops us living<br>life to the best of our ability. Any idea that<br>drugs could help creatively, so that we become<br>a success in our career, is hopelessly<br>unrealistic. Instead, we simply exist. In<br>sobriety, creativity returns, along with a zest for<br>life. For that, I am grateful.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment Opiate addiction The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on thisday in 1772. 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