I'll bet you perceive these words as quite irritating, since they give no hope to those who want to use Rush to promote their agenda to his vast listening audience:
"You can boil it down to one real simple essence: I can't be responsible for anybody's happiness but my own, and if I allow somebody else the power to determine my happiness, then...well...that's something I don't want to do. I can't do [it] any longer. I put myself first. Doesn't mean be rudely selfish. It just means I can't depend on other people to make me happy. I have to do that myself. I'm the only one who has control over that."
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Thank you sir. But, they are not my words. They were taught to me by other addicts who have decades clean. Since they have this success, and since I didn't, I decided to heed their advice. How incredibly lucky for me that I did -- I might be dead right now, otherwise.