humansofnewyork:
“What happened?”
“It has to do with alcohol. I haven’t really told the story to anyone.”
“Will you tell me?”
“…well, I’d been drinking everyday for several years. In 2009 I tried to quit. So I stopped drinking for two days, and I got so sick that I couldn’t eat or sleep. But I still decided to try to go to work. I got so weak that I passed out in the BART station while I was waiting for the train. When I woke up, I was paralyzed from the waist down.”
“Oh man.”
“You want to know the sad part?”
“What’s that?”
“I’m still drinking. Because of the loneliness.”
(San Francisco, CA)
