A story as old as humanity / Una historia vieja como la humanidad - LOH contest week #274 (eng-esp)
.Hello my friends.
I wanted to write something cheerful, but I decided to do something that might be of interest and help to someone who reads this. Today I'm going to write about something sad that happened to me.

A few days ago, a friend of mine invited me for some beers to celebrate a pretty advantageous contract he had signed.
However, less than two hours had passed since we arrived at the bar and he was already drunk. We hadn't even drunk much. That night, I spent more than three hours trying to get him to get up off the floor so I could take him home.
It turns out that when I told a mutual friend about it, he said that the same thing had happened to him and that's why he didn't go out with him. The poor guy has a serious alcohol addiction, and no one had ever told me.
He's a writer, just like me, and we'd always met in literary circles, where there wasn't much drinking, so I never knew about this side of him.
When I started looking into it to see how I could help him fight this addiction, I learned that it wasn't the first time this had happened to him; it was a relapse. Many years ago, the same thing had happened, and he'd lost his job and his wife. Later, he destroyed other relationships because of alcohol as well.
For this reason, I'm seeing a psychologist friend to get advice on how to help him. I need to figure out how to let him know that I understand and am concerned about his situation, but in a way that doesn't offend him and make him reject help. On the contrary, I want him to feel supported and that he's not alone.
And I was writing this article when he called me, under the influence of alcohol, and it's not even noon yet.
Addiction is an illness that cannot be fought alone, unless you have tremendous willpower. But if we had that willpower, then it's unlikely we'd fall into addiction.
If you know someone like that, please don't leave them alone and help them through this difficult time.
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Hola, amigas mías.
Quería escribir algo alegre, pero decidí hacer algo que quizás, sea de interés y ayuda para alguien que me lea. Hoy voy a escribir sobre algo triste que me pasó.

Hace unos días, un amigo mío me invitó a tomarnos unas cervezas para celebrar un contrato bastante beneficioso te había firmado.
Sin embargo, no habían pasado dos horas desde que llegamos al bar y ya él estaba borracho. Ni siquiera habíamos bebido mucho. Esa noche pasé, más de 3 horas, intentando que se levantara del suelo para poder llevarlo a su casa.
Sucede que, cuando le hago el cuento a un amigo en común, él me dice que ya la había pasado lo mismo y que por eso es que no salía con él a compartir. El pobre, tiene una gran adicción por el alcohol y nadie me lo había dicho.
Él es un escritor igual que yo, y siempre nos habíamos encontrado en espacios literarios, donde no había mucha bebida y por tanto nunca conocí esta faceta suya.
Cuando comienzo a indagar, para ver de qué forma ayudar ayudarlo a combatir esta adicción, me entero que no es primera vez que le sucede sino que es una recaída; pues muchos años atrás le había sucedido lo mismo y había perdido el trabajo y a su esposa. Luego, destruyó otras relaciones de pareja también por el alcohol.
Por tal razón estoy viendo a una amiga psicóloga para que me indique cómo ayudarlo. Tengo que ver cómo le hago saber que conozco o me preocupa su situación; pero que no se sienta ofendido y le haga rechazo a la ayuda, sino todo lo contrario que se sienta atendido y que no está solo.
Y estaba escribiendo este artículo, cuando me llamó por teléfono, bajo los efectos del alcohol, y aún no es el mediodía.
La adicción es una enfermedad que no se puede combatir en soledad, a no ser que se tenga una grandísima fuerza de voluntad. Pero, si tuviéramos esa fuerza de voluntad, entonces es difícil que caigamos en la adicción.
Si ustedes conocen a alguien así, por favor, no lo dejen solo y ayúdenlo a salir de este mal momento.


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A neighbor I got to know some years ago that her son was addicted to drugs. He'd show up first to borrow some money to pay a debt, then to beg for more money, then resorted to stealing from her to pay for his addiction. Sadly, medical intervention did not help enough and it did not end well.
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Unfortunately, not all of those stories have a happy ending.
Luckily, although few, some do overcome it. That gives us hope.
Thanks for sharing 🫂