Fragments of a Crystal: Living next to an addict by Karina Rodríguez Mayorga

Fragments of a Crystal is a story based on true events that tells how your life can change overnight. Feeling your monotonous life when you feel an emptiness. That you seek to try to fill it with substances that do not give you happiness, that you can fill it momentarily leaving that void even more void completely. It is an existential emptiness that presumably leads them to find a way to cope with a life that seems eternal of boredom and monotony, which does not seem to have anything to offer them. They enter a path where drugs promise to give strength to the adversities of daily life, putting them in self-dependence under the symptoms of drugs. Affecting not only the person who consumes them but also the whole family, breaking ties that they never imagined breaking, taking love, affection, respect in their wake, filling all women with emptiness, sadness, fear and insecurity. people once loved. It is a story that tells the experiences that are reflected in today's society. Where love, tenderness, compassion, pain, suffering are the most relevant feelings that will be read in these lines. This text is addressed to anyone who has suffered or suffers when living next to an addict. We invite you to delve into this story of courage and strength.