Do you often start out telling yourself you're only going to have one or two beers and
then find yourself plastered again? Life seems to always kick you. I was like that for
many years, then one day I was sent to AA, because I thought I was going crazy. I
didn't know why they sent me to a place for alcoholics, because I damn sure wasn't one
of those people. The thing was I was at a point in my life were I just wanted things to
change so bad I went.
I figured I had nothing to lose, my hand was broken from fighting, I didn't have a job
and my wife basically told me so long. I was in what they called a "speakers meeting"
were just one person gets up and tells his or her story and I couldn't sit down. I was
literally bouncing off the walls. I looked over and two little old ladies were sitting at a
table looking up at me and one bumped the other and I saw her mouth move saying "hes
got it bad." The lady who was speaking that night, didn't talk about how much she drank,
because she said that was different with each person. She talked about her thoughts:
the anger, the resentments, the racing of the mind. She spoke about the paranoia. It
was like she had looked inside my head.
Well, I figured I might as well go back and find out more and here it is over 19 years
later, I haven't had a drink, a joint or anything that wasn't prescribed by a doctor. My
life has been much better. I still have problems, but I am able to handle them with out
the bottle or taking something. I am a lot happier person today.
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