The speaker argues that actively seeking meaning in recovery, rather than dismissing events as coincidence, builds curiosity about others and humanizes people who use drugs. Listening to different stories helps you find resonance with others and breaks down stigma.
If we choose to not to think there is no coincidence, but we actually choose to get meaning or make meaning out of situations and then, and then apply that to our lives and, and how that impacts us, or what does that mean? It just, it just, it just, it's about being curious about people and a way of humanizing everybody. Yeah. Because drug users, I don't think, are always humanized. Listening to stories of people where it's not, It's maybe adjacent or similar to your experience, but there are things in it that you have discomfort, right? And finding, and hopefully being able to see yourself in that story somewhere a little bit too. I think that's where we create, or when we actually start to dismantle the stigma.
