Seven years ago I sat down to write this story. My story. Two years previous to that, I was homeless, broke, dirty and in a lot of pain, both emotionally and physically. For several years my life revolved around doing whatever I had to do to pursue my passion — drugs. I lived with shame, guilt and self-hatred for so long because I believed that I just didn’t have the willpower to stop. I felt like a loser all the time...I had bought into the myth that addiction is a matter of willpower. The judgment I felt just
isolated me, keeping me further and further away from other people, and from getting help. ACTS OF WORSHIP is simply my attempt to show that addiction is not so black & white. On the outside, some of us look easier to judge than others, but the truth is that you never really know what someone’s been through.

Rosemary Rodriguez
New York, 2001

 
   
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