Leave the marriage, job, church and country better, not bitter.
Leave them in the rearview mirror - as you drive away. A "made bed" doesn't need to have you as the sucker who lies in it. Meatloaf goes well with praying for the end of time, so you can end your time with the one you promised lifelong fidelity.
Leave the garbage to the trash collectors, the fake-jewel heirlooms to the yard sale and the traditions/doctrines to a fiddler on the roof. Should you wake up grumpy? No, let him sleep.
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Simon says -just drop off the key and get yourself free! Everybody, including Dr. Phil who specializes in punching "bitter bus" tickets, has advice for those disillusioned with life. Few, however, see any value in healthy disillusionment. Instead, great value is placed on giving and receiving so-called "controlled substances" such as prescription sleeping pills and oxycodone.
Gary Boggs of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Diversion Control states, "The average pharmacy in the United States dispenses somewhere around 69,000 dosage units of oxycodone in a year." In the same vein, the DEA discovered that a supplier of pharmacies in Sanford, Florida shipped enough oxycodone to give 59 pills to every man, woman and child living there.
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To me, if pain is the body's way of saying something's wrong, then disillusionment is the soul's way of saying deal with it. Expectations set too high, schedules set too tight and alarms set to go off too often is the painful accident waiting to happen in life's health club. Pushing your body hard while pulling your hair out is a routine better done with a partner than with a prescription.
You need someone to listen and to understand your pain, not something to take and mask it. Disillusionment, unlike its diagnosis, is a normal part of living with human imperfection. It used to be a caution, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." Now, it's a disease to be "treated and streeted" by professionals from whom you take a shower, or worse.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of yearly deaths from painkiller overdoses quadrupled in the last decade to 15,000 people in 2008.
The unhealthy variety of disillusionment is indeed a complaint, but not the physical kind. It's complaining that you didn't need this, didn't want this and didn't deserve this hassle and pain. It ultimately leads to contempt of the court jester in each of us and hatred for all things self-less. It leads to the overuse and overdose of painkillers and sleeping pills.
It leaves you with only one more thing to leave behind - this sad but true world of ours.
