Tomorrow Is Wednesday

I'm watching the ESPN documentaries of former NBA player Chris Herron.

The background is this: major player in Fall River, MA. Goes to Boston College and gets tossed due to failed drug tests. Transfers to Fresno State. Plays for Jerry Tarkanian. Has moments both good and not so good. Gets drafted by the Nuggets. Comes back home to the Celtics. Leaves the NBA. Goes to Italy.

Is a straight-up junkie all along.

It's a terrible story.

The redemption comes at the end of "Unguarded," produced in 2011, when he gets cleaned up, in part due to his wife saying (paraphrasing), "Fix it or don't come back."

From there he became a motivational spokesman. That's where the new documentary "The First Day" comes into play.

The program cuts between Herron's various speaking engagements. There's nothing glamorous about it. It's compelling, real, heartbreaking stuff.

Herren visited Darien High School in Connecticut in 2017, and Dan Arestia wrote about it in the Darien Times.

We have an opioid crisis. An epidemic. A problem. Chose your term.

Kids need to hear this and know it can happen to them.

Don't think it can't. Literally, anyone can walk into the wrong crowd.

But you don't need to hear it from me. Watch these documentaries about Chris Herren and listen to him.

"Everyone can smoke blunts," he says. "Everyone can drink in basements. Not everyone can walk away from it."

Learn from him.

Before it's too late.

And remind yourself that it's one day at a time.

It's so trite but win today.

One day at a time.

Keep moving forward.