Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

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Christian Lowe said:
I started smoking weed at 12, cocaine by 17, fentanyl by 20, clean at 24. Lucky to be alive. It's a lot harder to get sober than people give credit for. I mean my entire adult life was spent blunting every emotion I'd ever felt. I had no clue how to process pain any other way. It's not easy to deal with, especially when you know how easy it'd be to make it all go away again.
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Congratulations.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
I started smoking weed at 12, cocaine by 17, fentanyl by 20, clean at 24. Lucky to be alive. It's a lot harder to get sober than people give credit for. I mean my entire adult life was spent blunting every emotion I'd ever felt. I had no clue how to process pain any other way. It's not easy to deal with, especially when you know how easy it'd be to make it all go away again.
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I wish you nothing but the very best my friend.
 
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Vols4us said:
I get that it takes all types of folks. Old school says team first, don't attract attention to yourself, attract it to your team since it takes all of the individuals to come together and perform as one to do well in team sports. I never said look at me when playing team sports in HS or college. But that's just me and how I was taught.

That does not mean Maurer cannot attract attention to sobriety as an individual. That's honorable. But that tweet followed many tweets that were immature (to be nice) at best and stupid at their worst. So, for you young rascals - is it the body of work or the individual tweet that matters or something else that matters? I need to understand non-boomer (since we are evil apparently) thinking better. People see the body of work and go, "That dude is a few bricks shy of a load." Posters see that sobriety tweet only and say, "What a great thing he just did."

What say you? Educate an old codger.
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I think there's two reasons people might be annoyed with Maurer. 1st is the possibility that he never had an actual drug problem, and he's using this as just a way to get props on social media. Which seems likely because it is difficult (but not impossible) to be a college athlete and maintain a serious drug addiction, JMO.

2nd, as a matter of opinion, I don't think this is the type of thing I would personally share on social media. We all have battles that we face that just shouldn't come with any expectation of personal glory, and this is one of those. Aside from that, Maurer has always failed to understand that is Twitter represents his personal brand, as well as the school. It doesn't do him or the school any favors by discussing his drug issues or sobriety on Twitter and that's par for the course for him. Maybe that isn't fair, but it is what it is.
 
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drvenner said:
So long as you avert your gaze while you're doing it, it has a chance of not breaking.
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Christian Lowe said:
I started smoking weed at 12, cocaine by 17, fentanyl by 20, clean at 24. Lucky to be alive. It's a lot harder to get sober than people give credit for. I mean my entire adult life was spent blunting every emotion I'd ever felt. I had no clue how to process pain any other way. It's not easy to deal with, especially when you know how easy it'd be to make it all go away again.
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Very impressive to clean up in just 12 years, it's one thing to get clean when you started using drugs as an adult, but much harder when it's been your whole adult life and then some.

Not pushing a narrative either way, genuinely curious on your perspective: would you say weed was a gateway drug, or your progression into harder drugs was unrelated to whichever drug you started using?
 
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Ten_Titans said:
I think there's two reasons people might be annoyed with Maurer. 1st is the possibility that he never had an actual drug problem, and he's using this as just a way to get props on social media. Which seems likely because it is difficult (but not impossible) to be a college athlete and maintain a serious drug addiction, JMO.

2nd, as a matter of opinion, I don't think this is the type of thing I would personally share on social media. We all have battles that we face that just shouldn't come with any expectation of personal glory, and this is one of those. Aside from that, Maurer has always failed to understand that is Twitter represents his personal brand, as well as the school. It doesn't do him or the school any favors by discussing his drug issues or sobriety on Twitter and that's par for the course for him. Maybe that isn't fair, but it is what it is.
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Really well said. "We shouldn't expect all our battles to come with personal glory" is a great line that I'm going to steal and claim credit for haha. I get a little annoyed when people fish for recognition for overcoming struggles - legitimate or not, self inflicted or not - but I've never been able to articulate why it annoys me, and you summed it up perfectly.
 
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jave36 said:
Very impressive to clean up in just 12 years, it's one thing to get clean when you started using drugs as an adult, but much harder when it's been your whole adult life and then some.

Not pushing a narrative either way, genuinely curious on your perspective: would you say weed was a gateway drug, or your progression into harder drugs was unrelated to whichever drug you started using?
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I didn’t like weed, but I wanted to be high.. so (unfortunately) I found something I loved in cocaine. Then coke started having reverse effects, severe anxiety and such.. so I started combining it with Xanax to offset that effect. Then I just found H/Fent and that was just game over. I was a functioning addict until I got on opiates.

But no, if I enjoyed weed how everyone else seems to then I’d probably have been content to just do that forever. I just never liked it much.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
I think there's two reasons people might be annoyed with Maurer. 1st is the possibility that he never had an actual drug problem, and he's using this as just a way to get props on social media. Which seems likely because it is difficult (but not impossible) to be a college athlete and maintain a serious drug addiction, JMO.

2nd, as a matter of opinion, I don't think this is the type of thing I would personally share on social media. We all have battles that we face that just shouldn't come with any expectation of personal glory, and this is one of those. Aside from that, Maurer has always failed to understand that is Twitter represents his personal brand, as well as the school. It doesn't do him or the school any favors by discussing his drug issues or sobriety on Twitter and that's par for the course for him. Maybe that isn't fair, but it is what it is.
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What makes you think it is difficult for college athletes to not have serious drug addictions?
 
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Christian Lowe said:
I started smoking weed at 12, cocaine by 17, fentanyl by 20, clean at 24. Lucky to be alive. It's a lot harder to get sober than people give credit for. I mean my entire adult life was spent blunting every emotion I'd ever felt. I had no clue how to process pain any other way. It's not easy to deal with, especially when you know how easy it'd be to make it all go away again.
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I quit at the same age 24. weed, cocaine, Quaaludes, whiskey, speed, and many others. Withdrawals were real! Quit cold turkey when the Lord changed my life.
 
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