I'm free.
I've been single-handedly supporting my friend through his drug and alcohol addiction. I stuck around when everyone else had had enough, trying to keep him alive without enabling him. I knew I was doing everything I could, but I still felt like a failure when he dropped out of school. That was last week, and I'm surprised at how free I feel now that he is back home with his family. I can work on my own recovery (26 days sober!). I'm too far away to pick him up off the floor, drive him around town, lend him money. These things needed to end, and they did. I am free.