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“I’ve been clean off Meth for 3 years and 3 months….To me Meth is death. I’m happy, full of love and have wonderful friends. That’s a blessing and a miracle. So if you’re reading this and you struggle, you are not alone. Life is wonderful for me today” 

-Lauren W

#lifeovermeth

Imagine:
Years after Hogwarts, Hermione suffers from dementia.
Harry and Ron went every day to the St. Mungo’s Hospital and tell her the old stories.
And for a moment, she’s back to them. Laughs and cries.
For a moment, all of them are happy..

“My parents didn’t raise me to order something expensive when someone else is paying.”

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“Summer air, freedom and you.”

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And the little girl smiled, “Sunset”, she said, “that is my favourite color.

“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.”

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ViaPhilosophy Break: ‘The 3 different levels of friendship, according to Aristotle over 2,000 years ago…

1. The friendship of utility. These friendships are based on what someone can do for you, or what you can do for another person. It might be that you put in a good word for someone, and they buy you a drink in return. Such relationships have little to do with character, and can end as soon as any possible use for you or the other person is removed from the equation.

2. The friendship of pleasure. These are the friendships based on enjoyment of a shared activity or the pursuit of fleeting pleasures and emotions. It might be someone you go for drinks with, but would never have over for dinner, and is a common level of association for the young, so Aristotle declared. This type of relationship can again end quickly, dependent as it is on people’s ever-changing likes and dislikes.

3. The friendship of virtue. These are the people you like for themselves, who typically influence you positively and push you to be a better person. This kind of relationship, based as it is on character, is a lot more stable than the previous two categories. While Aristotle laments the rarity of such pure, mutually appreciative relationships, he believes they are possible between two virtuous people who can invest the time and energy required to forge such a bond.

Aristotle established these levels of friendship in his Nicomachean Ethics, written around 350BC.

A masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics contains Aristotle’s vision for how human beings can achieve eudaimonia, which is variously translated from Greek as ‘well-being’, ‘happiness’, ‘blessedness’, and in the context of the virtue ethics Aristotle endorsed, ‘human flourishing’.

While friendships of utility and pleasure have their place, working at elevating them to the coveted friendships of virtue is an important part of attaining such flourishing in our own lives, Aristotle believed.’

I don’t know how to hold you as anything other than my everything.

So we settled for nothing instead.

MK Ireland #268 : what we lack