Empty Hands

 Addicts know what it is like to have empty hands.  No one wants to hold your hand and no one wants to shake your hand.  They just wish you would go away.  Recovery is about having hands that are no longer empty.  People shake your hand when you enter a room.  People hold your hand because they know, like, and even some who love you.  Your world becomes full of friends you have never met rather than strangers with whom you feel inferior and out of place.