"We are all just trying to survive being born."

     I just completed reading "Running Ransom Road,"  an autobiography by Caleb Daniloff about his recovery from alcohol and drugs, and his running.  One paragraph jumped out at me and I thought I would share it with you.

     "In many ways, recovery is simply a synonym for life.  We are all just trying to survive being born.  Recovery, like life, like death, is ultimately an individual journey, a single-seat row-boat with no life preserver.  If you capsize, you have to learn how to turn your own jeans into a flotation device. There's always work left to do, more road, more corners, more hills.  It is the grappling with invisible monsters on a road with no name that leaves fang holes on your neck.  The struggle is in learning to open your eyes, to see."

     What do you think?