Charles R. Smith II

In my time of life before I was on the literal path of Recovery I was forced to live through physical, financial and severe emotional hardships, this being at the age of 13. Life's situations back then took me through that suffering, taught me to live through it and taught me that if I were to just hang in there and try to accomplish victory over those many problems then better times would come. Since then, much more recent, I have seen how many people at the ages of 20 plus years come to suffer with a different set of hardships, that, yes I had to endure, they hadn't my early life victories and these poor people didn't realise that their suffering could be overcome. I, though, since my childhood difficulties, once I was faced with another set of difficulties I knew to hang in there, do the next right thing and now I'm clean, sober and happily in Recovery from mental and emotional disorders! Those poor folk who didn't even try Recovery are now, I believe, facing their Higher Power trying to explain themselves and how they decided to not choose Recovery. To me these people I call heartbreakers. They purposely chose to continue on in their disease and all I can do is pray for them plus for Recovery for the next fellow sufferer. Me? I'm now getting old, maturing and continue to get happier all through my Recovery. Charles R. Smith II