When A Good Heart Isn’t Enough
<p>Looking back at the entirety of someone’s full life with an imperfect human brain lends to revisionist history and the remapping of events. In my half-brother’s case, it seemed like he was always plagued with a challenge starting at a very early age. He was the product of divorce, raised for a few years by our mother and her mother before becoming part of a blended family and gaining a step-father, step-brother and newborn half-sister, me. As a child he was often rewarded with food and garnered the label of “husky” regarding his physique. Food was his first addiction. His habits proliferated into smoking at age 12 to attention/approval-seeking, which led to a serious eating disorder, drinking and recreational drugs all before age 20. He was indeed the beloved life of the party as “Timmer” and seemed comfortable and joyous in that easy, “good time” role. But it wasn’t a good blueprint for a productive life. A productive life takes hard work.</p>
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