Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison

by Mike Sorrentino

As with most things in life, with the bad comes some good.

That’s what’s important in life—breaking bread and eating food made with love with the people you love.

That’s the way it is in the Italian culture. A little corporal punishment with whatever object is handy. An umbrella, the wooden spatula, two hands shaking with anger. No big deal. You mess up, you earn a light beating from your parents.

Though I have to admit, as a result of those punishments during my adolescence, I now suffer from a rare psychological condition known as “having respect for others.”

A wise man once said, “Never fall in love at the Jersey Shore.”

Heroes come and go, but legends never die. And that was the cast. The rest is history.

“Do not seek revenge; the rotten fruits will fall by themselves.”

In the recipe of success, one of the main ingredients is failure. The key is to not give up on yourself.

Like a great man once said (many, many times): the comeback is always greater than the setback.

I didn’t get what I prayed for until I became the person that should receive it.