Triggers

Yes, triggers and I don’t mean the kind found on a gun.

The twelve step programs call items that want the addict to act out in their disease, triggers. Presently, I’m reading Michael Connelly’s “City of Bones” and the book is setting off some of my triggers. City of Bones is about an abused twelve year-old boy who was murdered decades previously and whose bones are found scattered on a hilltop. Connelly’s LAPD Detective Harry Bosch investigates.

This the first Connelly and Harry Bosch book that I’ve read. Personally, I think the writing can be better. Too many, he did this and he did that, then he did the other thing. The words could flow better in my opinion.

An abused child is what I am and reading the story of boy beaten and forgotten is setting-off my triggers. Addict that I am, food being my drug of choice, I won’t stop reading City of Bones even though I can feel the triggers because I believe in finishing what I have started.

Finishing what one has started even though it’s a struggle can be a good thing. It makes me finish writing my books, for example. That obsession to finish what has commenced can also be a bad thing when the triggers occur and the disease kicks in.

I’m sure Harry will find the perp. I just hope he does so before I reach for another fried chicken drumstick

Steven Tyler

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