There are two stories that I wish I could erase from my mind. A movie- Requiem for a Dream– and a book- The Road. I know, works of fiction. Briefly, if you chose to insert a dark cloud of hopelessness into your life, Requiem for a Dream is about heroin addiction, and The Road is about the life of a boy and his father surviving the end of the world. It has been years since I saw and read them, but still, I lay awake at night and wonder…..what went so wrong. And then I think of ways I can buffer my children from these horrors. My husband tells me I worry to much. But, he hasn’t seen Requiem for a Dream.

In one of my earlier posts, I made reference to my youngest child eating sugar and, as a result, perhaps I’m priming her for heroin addiction. I meant this as an example of how my thinking can be alarming and colorful, possibly more for the big screen.

I saw this video and thought it was a clever discussion of the science behind this fear. After viewing, I felt a sense of CTFD.