Is Life the Road to Recovery? by Brent M. Jones

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Is Life the Road to Recovery? is a meditation on the relationship between struggle, growth, and wisdom. Life rarely offers smooth paths—our stumbles often become the very ground on which resilience is built.

This poem invites readers to pause and consider whether recovery is simply what follows hardship, or whether it is itself the deeper journey of living.

Is Life the Road to Recovery?

Life doesn’t always teach gently. This poem and reflection explore what it means to stumble, recover, and grow wiser.

Does life require us to fall?
Is life the road to recovery
Or is recovery the road called life?

So when will we learn life’s lessons?
Does wisdom only come when we stumble?

Is life just a process, or a test?
If we knew what was needed,
Would we still need to fall?

Does recovery give us vision
Or just time to reflect?

If we already knew what was missing,
Would balance feel earned, or borrowed?

Does wisdom begin at the ending,
Or does it quietly mark the start?

Every fall changes us, sometimes in ways we don’t see until long after we’ve stood back up. If we can find meaning in the stumble, perhaps we’re already on the road to wisdom.