Why I love the Sober People

They are usually striving and not just abstaining. They have embraced their spiritual and communal self. They find out that they have a body and need to strengthen it. Many of my pals around the city will tell me they are ex drug users. They found me on a park bench, he said. I was 200 pounds, another one said. Here's a photo, a woman shows me.

In the locker room a woman tells me how she was addicted to Oxy. Now I workout she said laughing. But her daughter is struggling with anorexia so severe she has had several surgeries. It's heartbreaking.

Not everyone is ready to turn towards healing and that is the kicker. Watching friends walk off the pier.