Analysis Of There Is No Blame: There Is Only Love

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Choices, mistakes and consequences all sum up to your future. Ever since I can remember, my grandmother always had a tough time with my uncle and till this day she still does. I saw my grandmother suffer and it affected not only her, but the entire family. My grandmother is a woman of morals and values and taught those morals and values not only to my uncle, but to my mother and my aunt. No matter how much you teach a person, no matter how much you discipline a person the person can only change if they want to change. I consider myself part of the intended audience of “There Is No Blame; There Is Only Love” because my personal experiences lead me to agree with Ann Karasinski; that you can only help a person so much but it is up to them if they want to change their way of being. She had a daughter named Katie, who became addicted to heroin. Karasinski blamed herself and everyone that surrounded her daughter for her addiction. She was in disbelief, which, she states in the article, “I struggled to understand how this could have happened to my daughter- a bright, beautiful, talented and most importantly loved young woman.” Katie was in and out of rehab and after rehab Ann tried everything in her will to help her daughter Katie get better, but that did not happen. Katie then again left her mom Ann’s house and became addicted to heroin once again. Ann missed her daughter dearly, but by this point, Ann had no choice but to accept and love her daughter how she was, addicted to heroin or not Katie is still her daughter and no one was to blame for Katie’s actions. You can love, care and support an addict, but in the end you cannot help someone who does not want to help

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