When high is not high enough

I once read in a magazine about a young woman who allowed drugs to waste 20 years of her life. She started using drugs at the age of 15. She eventually got married and had two kids, but she was not able to stop using drugs and her husband left her for another women. Her kids sometimes visited their father, since they all are no longer living together. On one of such visits their father's girlfriend attacked one of them. She used her cigarette light to burn one of the boys' foot so badly that when they returned home and their mum saw it she was so devasted. She cried like never before and from that day she took a brave decision to go into a rehabilitation centre, because she knew no one would have been able to do that to her child if she had been responsible enough.

These are the type of stories you hear anytime drug abuse is mentioned. Many people have died because of it and many are still destroying themselves. A lot of kids have been disformed in many ways because of drugs used irresponsibly by their parents. What most of them fail to see is that drugs can never chase your problems away rather it will only complicate things for you. You conquer your problem only when you are able to live with it, only when you are able to stare it squarely in the face and feel comfortable with it. What is the use of getting high for 15 minutes in other to get rid of your problem only to have the same problem sit in your arm chair with a mug of coffee in its hand waiting for you to become sober again so that you two can continue where you stopped. Know this; the drug you take does not affect the problem in any way, rather you are the one who is been wasted while your problem grow fat and more complicated.

There is a vacuum in our lives that must be filled by God for one to be complete and fulfilled. Some people try to fill this vacuum with sex, drugs, alcohol etc, looking for fulfillment and satisfaction in these things, but they never succeeded. You may get temporal satisfaction but it will never last. Just like St. Augustine said: "Our soul is made by God and it can never rest until it rests in God." Why not try God today, approach him with that problem and tell him to take it away from you and see what he will and can do. Drugs can make you suicidal. But suicide is not the best option. Where are you going to go when you die? How are you so sure rest will be there, since you have not been there before? How are you so sure death will solve the problem? What if the problem follows you there, what then will you do since you cannot kill yourself twice? There is always a way out of every situation and the right way is Jesus who said that He is the Way, the Truth and Life and no one can come to God except through him. There is no reason to give up. If today is strong enough to come to you, be strong enough to face it, not only on your own but with Jesus who is always there to lend you a helping hand. Turning to drugs will only destroy you.