A Tale of Two Coreys

Here is what set me off today. I saw this headline on my Google homepage – Jodie Sweetin: From Meth Addict to New Mom. In case you do not recall Sweetin played the middle child, Stephanie, on Full House. I don’t have a problem with her or the show, what set me off is that I am tired of how we glorify those people who had some sort of addiction and then “recover” and go back to living a regular life. While usually that ride on the wagon is short, some people do turn it around for good. However, when they are held up as special examples it REALLY pisses me off. I’m sure that if I had to hang out with the Olsen twins on a set for 14 hours a day or even Dave Coulier I might want to stick a needle in my arm as well. Hell, it was Coulier that is rumored to be object of Alanis Morissette’s song “You Oughtta Know.” Obviously he is capable of driving people to the edge.

Here is the simple truth though – it is much tougher to get up each and every day, go to work, get your job done, come home and take care of your family and NEVER get addicted to anything than it is to get drunk or high and ignore responsibility. I have never missed been truly addicted to anything, though I have enjoyed a wide variety of things to which many people are addicted. I have never shirked a responsibility in lieu of satisfying my own selfish needs. So where are my honors and accolades? Believe me it would have been a lot easier to crawl off in bottle at many times in my life, especially when things were not going as I wished. I watched both of my parents linger and die yet I showed up to work and did my job then went home and took care of those responsibilities. I have always placed the needs of the people who depend on me as high as my own. (I’m not going to lie and say I placed others needs above mine because I am pretty much a narcissist, but hey – at least I am honest about it, right?)

So where is my book deal? When do I get to go on Oprah as the anti-James Frey? That may be a bad example because apparently he never did all the things that are in his book either. Truth is, some people should be on drugs. Drugs actually make some people better at what they do. Go listen to the last couple of Red Hot Chili Peppers albums then go and listen to Blood Sugar Sex Magic.

So what does this post have to do with Corey Haim and Corey Feldman? Nothing.