Do you know me?

[dkny27]

saw this on another site...thought some of you might find it helpful.

 

Do You Know Me?

 

I look like someone you used to know. You recongize my voice, but do you know me?

 

I will lie to you without blinking .. I will steal from you without a second thought ... I will con you out of whatever I deem I want or need from you and I am skilled in the art of manipulation and I know how to work you and get exactly what I want from you. I know all the buttons to push .. all the faces to make .. all the heart strings to pull ..right down to knowing just how to breath around you. Do you know me?

 

I will take and take and take some more .. as long as you are willing to give I will let you ... and I will do it in such a way that you will think you are offering .. I will have you insisting on helping me ... Thats how good of a con I am. Do you know me?

 

I am your husband, your son, your wife, your daughter, your mother, your father .. I come in all colors, races and creeds .. I am rich, middle class, poor and homeless .. (different faces in different phases) all headed in the same direction. Do you know me?

 

Seen at my best .. my worst is yet to come. I'm on top of the world (at least in my world I am) Do you know me?

 

One minute I will smile in your face and the next I'll verbally cut your heart out. Do you know me?

 

I am very creative and can condure up elborate stories that will blow you away. I should be a star .. I could win the award for best actress/actor of the year .. year after year.... Do you know me?

 

I can make you love or hate me in an instant and then take you from hating me to loving me in less time then that. Do you know me?

 

You will threaten me, throw me out and take me back so many times that you won't know whether you are coming or going. Do you know me?

 

I can stay gone for hours, days, weeks, months at a time .. and walk back in like I've been home all along ... Do you know me?

 

I will drain you financially, emotionally, mentally, physically and even spiritually .. yet you love me. Do you know me?

 

Let me introduce myself....

 

I am your addict.

 

You may not know me, but I know you.

 

Passion

Recovering addict

[robaday]

I really like this post (shouldn't really say that should I?) but there's been times in my life when I've been manipulative, scheming, selfish, only out to score, there's been times when I thought i was headed to the gutter but couldn't stop drinking, or times when I'd done two g's of coke and 10 ecstacy's and kept on drinking for two days, spending the next week doubled over in pain because I couldn't eat, times when my excrement was blood due to amount of vodka id drunk (apologies for vulgarity).

 

Can't say I've done heroin (or crack) but i know from personal experience the pitfalls of addiction and it ain't nice, watching people you trust rob you blindly, my best friend at 18 gave me (I was 14) a ketamine tablet which I took innocently, only to vomit and lie in the rain all night.

 

Really good post, you never know what lies beneath some people

[annieo]

Great post, but it's not you. It's the monster talking.

Underneath all of the scheming, the manipulation, the greed for more, is you, or who you used to be and still are, still could be. Just got to do a little digging, you're still in there somewhere

 

http://www.itsallgonepetetong.com/

[dkny27]

Just in case someone is confused I am not an addict, my ex was/is addicted to heroin. I have been having a hard time dealing with our relationship/break-up. I just thought someone might find that post helpful.