Freedom & Addiction: or How to Avoid Really Living

By Marc Howard Mege

The focus of this book is to give an autobiographical treatment of addiction: to cite, give detail, and vivify the varying states of addiction taken to task in these pages with relevant events that gave cause to those addictions and subsequent results both constructive and destructive. In the existential tradition of the mid-twentieth century, I have offered up my life as representation and contemplation of that particular human experience which we call addiction.

As the focus of my book is not in the gritty detail (although details there are) and the lamentation of opportunities missed (although remorse there is), but rather the myriad ways in which we as human beings get lost in our avoidances of life (i.e. responsibilities) through addiction - addiction in many forms, I endeavor to demonstrate, using my life as example, how one may come to understand how we bullshit ourselves and how we can get real with ourselves.

I tell the story of a man, a gay man (myself), who runs and runs until he runs himself into a midlife crisis (from which I am still understanding the effects - e.g. diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, varicose veins) reaching a zenith of felony charges for an internet sex crime of soliciting a minor (alleged high school teenager, but really a police officer) without meeting anyone or leaving the apartment to do so.

The age old adage that truth is stranger than fiction applies very well to me and my life. As I work at making the proverbial lemonade from lemons I have written the enclosed manuscript if nothing more than to provide the working-out of myself unto myself.

Please travel with me through my literature as I display some of the wildest meanderings through my life. Remember though, truth IS stranger than fiction. And the teller of the tale takes on a part equally as important as the tale itself just like Hunter S. Thompson. Backed with the philosophical underpinnings of Albert Camus, and charmed with the panache of Truman Capote, I just might leave you a changed human being.

Marc Mege

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F1FC6H75
• ISBN13: 9798313118017
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"