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Williams: Addiction, Baseball, Confidence, Drugs, and Equilibrium

At the end of the day, I think we all want to return to the feeling of being children.

After a long day of work — a task that we have normalized as the only aspect of this life worth living for — we all return to our homes and search for the thing that can make us release control, let our guards down, and learn from the greater universe.

Addiction is a necessary aspect of adult life. We villainize some addictions. If there’s a drug that isn’t administered and regulated by the medical community, it gets villainized.