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Re: Karo V Hazelett cancelled; Karo permanently out of the UFC
OK, here’s my 2 cents on it:
Before, I felt exactly how Luke did. It didn’t make any sense to me, that you can’t just stop. I mean, if you were on a deserted island by yourself, with no pills, you could stop, you would have to right? But I can’t relate, because I’ve never been in that situation, I never drank, smoked, got high, anything. I just never did it.
Let me tell you about my cousin. I grew up with him, I spent every summer at my aunts because the neighborhood I lived in was so bad. We were the same people, like twin brothers. We got older, grew apart a little bit, and he started fucking around with heroin. I watched this kid become a different person. He wanted to stop, he would try, but he just couldn’t do it. A couple years later, he got a bad batch and died in front of his daughter.
On to my brother. We got a long as good as two brothers could. I watched him start smoking week, and on to pills. He is a strong willed a person as you will find. He was burnt by a big pot of boiling water when he was 3 years old, because my pilled out Mom wasn’t paying attention to him. He has giant scars all over his upper body from the skin graphs/burns but he got through it, and he just pressed on, no big deal, he got through it after they told my mom he was going to die. Yet, the will he had, he couldn’t get off these fuckin pills. He would tell me, he could see how disappointed I was in him, he would tell me that he is trying. he went to rehab, got clean, got his own place, job, only to fall right back in the cycle. He couldn’t get off them for years.
Finally, he got a good job, a new religion (he is a Muslim now, white kid from Philly is a Muslim…LOL) and a new girlfriend, and he FINALLY seems like he has his shit together. He tells me that what he needed was a rigorous structure to keep him busy so he wouldn’t get high. He works his ass off all day, does his Muslim thing, and spends some time with his girl, and right back to it the next day. It’s a grind, but he tells me it saved his life.
Sorry for the rant, but what I’m saying is, I’ve watched it happen. Its fuckin hard to get off this shit. I don’t know firsthand, because I’ve never done it, but I watched two of the guys I loved more than anyone else in my family go through it. They tried over and over to stop. One is dead, one is doing pretty good. It’s hard for people to just quit cold turkey, it takes years to finally beat it, they have to keep fighting. If Karo wants to beat it, he just has to keep trying, even after he relapses, he has to get back on the horse, so to speak, and keep trying.
Carry on.
OK, here’s my 2 cents on it:
Before, I felt exactly how Luke did. It didn’t make any sense to me, that you can’t just stop. I mean, if you were on a deserted island by yourself, with no pills, you could stop, you would have to right? But I can’t relate, because I’ve never been in that situation, I never drank, smoked, got high, anything. I just never did it.
Let me tell you about my cousin. I grew up with him, I spent every summer at my aunts because the neighborhood I lived in was so bad. We were the same people, like twin brothers. We got older, grew apart a little bit, and he started fucking around with heroin. I watched this kid become a different person. He wanted to stop, he would try, but he just couldn’t do it. A couple years later, he got a bad batch and died in front of his daughter.
On to my brother. We got a long as good as two brothers could. I watched him start smoking week, and on to pills. He is a strong willed a person as you will find. He was burnt by a big pot of boiling water when he was 3 years old, because my pilled out Mom wasn’t paying attention to him. He has giant scars all over his upper body from the skin graphs/burns but he got through it, and he just pressed on, no big deal, he got through it after they told my mom he was going to die. Yet, the will he had, he couldn’t get off these fuckin pills. He would tell me, he could see how disappointed I was in him, he would tell me that he is trying. he went to rehab, got clean, got his own place, job, only to fall right back in the cycle. He couldn’t get off them for years.
Finally, he got a good job, a new religion (he is a Muslim now, white kid from Philly is a Muslim…LOL) and a new girlfriend, and he FINALLY seems like he has his shit together. He tells me that what he needed was a rigorous structure to keep him busy so he wouldn’t get high. He works his ass off all day, does his Muslim thing, and spends some time with his girl, and right back to it the next day. It’s a grind, but he tells me it saved his life.
Sorry for the rant, but what I’m saying is, I’ve watched it happen. Its fuckin hard to get off this shit. I don’t know firsthand, because I’ve never done it, but I watched two of the guys I loved more than anyone else in my family go through it. They tried over and over to stop. One is dead, one is doing pretty good. It’s hard for people to just quit cold turkey, it takes years to finally beat it, they have to keep fighting. If Karo wants to beat it, he just has to keep trying, even after he relapses, he has to get back on the horse, so to speak, and keep trying.
Carry on.
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