Drained (Stories of People Who Wanted More) by Johann Christoph Arnold
By Johann Christoph Arnold
In tired, Arnold tells tales of many folks who overcame their maximum hindrances. He builds his e-book at the premise that the eager for peace lies deep inside of all people. tired makes no try to current a cure-all for life's difficulties, yet for these able to transcend quick-fix 'remedies', it bargains stepping stones to a fulfilled lifestyles.
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There were night-clubs to frequent, with tables set aside just for models. Alcohol was free, drugs were free, sex was free – everything was there for the taking, and who was I to refuse? Once, I found myself in Milan, strapped for cash and short on my rent. Hardly a problem: I simply did things like ‘Dance for Dollars’. I’d be driven to a night-club and would spend the evening getting drunk and flirting with as many women as I possibly could, and then I’d be driven home. It was the club’s way of attracting female business, and it paid well.
I can’t change the past, but I can spend the rest of my life trying to do something for others. I now work for a charity that tries to brighten the lives of children who have AIDS or are directly affected by it. Just being able to spend three or four hours a week with each of the five children I visit makes a difference in their lives and mine. Joshua died not long ago, at the age of four. He was born with AIDS. I used to hold him in my arms, and we’d dance around his mum’s living room to MTV. We laughed a lot together.
I was an emotional wreck. More than anything, I needed freedom from the pain of my past, but I looked for it in all the wrong places. To be honest, I was looking for one thing, and I went after it with a desperate passion: I wanted to be loved. I looked for love in my husband, Bob, but I felt he didn’t measure up; I looked for it in my friends, and they also failed. I looked for it in God, too. Somehow it remained outside my grasp. I could not feel love or experience it. Then, during a sort of retreat several years ago, Bob and I tried to consider the course of our lives.