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tcr!
· May 29, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Audio (MP3): 20180529 - Speaking of consequences and desperation
Alcoholics can related to this. I’m not sure if others will…
But one of the things that made it so easy for me to continue drinking was that I never had any real consequences. I never was in jail for more than a day or so, the bank never threatened to take my house. My jobs were always more than supportive and somehow I still have all my fingers and toes.
It’s not that I didn’t think about the consequences. I could think about them all day long, but if it were in my head that I was gonna drink, there was simply no stopping me. I didn’t resist at all. There was no debate, no trying to convince myself it was the wrong thing to do. I never tried to talk myself out of it. All of that internal yammering was too painful and willpower is nonexistent when I’m drinking. It was easier to just give in, give up, quit fighting a fight I’d never win.
Momma J
· May 29, 2018 at 3:36 pm
Were you ever drunk in front of me? If you were, I didn’t know it!
tcr!
· May 29, 2018 at 3:42 pm
I doubt it. You’d have known. :)
debbie
· May 29, 2018 at 4:33 pm
Thank you for sharing this. I just sent it to someone who needs help!
tcr!
· May 29, 2018 at 4:54 pm
Awesome! I wrote it for the people out there in despair.
Cowan
· May 29, 2018 at 5:39 pm
Very well stated
tcr!
· May 29, 2018 at 6:49 pm
Thanks!
Kelly K
· May 29, 2018 at 7:15 pm
“Because drunkenness is like a wet blanket over the fire, a soggy forcefield that keeps the inferno of reality from being real.” Beautifully said. Captures that feeling, that state dead on!
jewel
· May 29, 2018 at 8:51 pm
Alcoholics don’t play the tape through by choice. You quit drinking, so at some point you must have actually decided to stop and think before you took a drink. Good choice!!
domo vitek
· May 29, 2018 at 10:08 pm
This is so poignant and true. Bullseye! I found myself in every word. Thank you for sharing
elaineorr
· May 29, 2018 at 10:22 pm
Well put. Thanks.
Mitchell
· May 29, 2018 at 10:59 pm
Very insightful I needed to read that thank you for sharing
Wilkins
· May 29, 2018 at 11:27 pm
You have always been an old soul….even when you were young. You had the fortitude and the gift for seeing the outcome of your life if you remained in the direction you were heading. That gift enabled you to make decisions that prevented years of misery…..you never experienced too many bad things from your drinking……”yet”…..when you quit…. I assure you that if you would have kept using for long enough you would have experienced every one of them. I’ve seen people say I came into Alcoholics Anonymous too early, I didn’t suffer enough before I came in I had to go back out and try it again. The big book talks about going out and try and control drinking, it says if you can do it, then go right ahead, cuz you are not one of us. No, definitely not one of us if you can control you’re drinking. I remember an old saying I heard in Alcoholics Anonymous one time. They said I didn’t stop at Alcoholics Anonymous because it was the prettiest house on the street, I stopped because it was the last house on the street. That hit home with me because I tried everything, to be able to continue to drink, as I wanted to prove that it wasn’t the alcohol I had a problem with it was everybody else who was bothering me. You know there’s another saying in Alcoholics Anonymous. At first I took a drink, and then the drink took a drink, and then the drink took me. That’s how I describe my alcoholism. Thank God we don’t have to live that way anymore, is another great saying from alcoholics anonymous that I use quite often. :-)
Botsford
· May 30, 2018 at 9:35 am
What Kelly & Vanessa said! Well done my friend.
tcr!
· May 28, 2018 at 11:43 am
Hater McGhray
· May 28, 2018 at 12:06 pm
I started one for you so you wouldn’t look like an asshole.
tism
· May 28, 2018 at 12:22 pm
GoFund his birthday. He needs pie and Hawaiian sweet bread!!!
keamoose
· May 28, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Those 200 lbs of tater tots aren’t going to fund themselves!
tcr!
· May 28, 2018 at 2:36 pm
You guys may know me too well
tcr!
· May 28, 2018 at 6:04 pm
I honestly don’t know what I would do with that.
tcr!
· May 28, 2018 at 6:05 pm
Well, I could take out the neighbor’s dog that’s always barking ð¤
Hater McGhray
· May 28, 2018 at 6:11 pm
You told me you wanted to take it to the dunes. Are you begged me to post this so that people would buy it for you.
Hater McGhray
· May 28, 2018 at 6:13 pm
OK maybe that’s not totally true but we could take it to the dunes.
tcr!
· May 29, 2018 at 8:52 am
That’d be fun! I’d like to work in a James and the Giant Peach scene in somehow if we could.
keamoose
· May 29, 2018 at 9:40 am
If the beach ball thing doesn’t pan out, please feel free to use my $11 for tacos.
tism
· May 29, 2018 at 9:50 am
and my $10 for pie
tcr!
· May 28, 2018 at 10:44 am
One thing I just realized on this 89°F morning: it’s never my idea to mow the yard.
tcr!
· May 27, 2018 at 7:35 am
Happy Sunday, peeps. Try not to overbook. Keep the calendar light. Less things are better. Schedule downtime with your favorite people. Enjoy their company.
We’ll never find a better reason to live than enjoying people’s company. Make them feel extraordinary. Not the whole world, just the ones that count.
heylinda
· May 27, 2018 at 12:05 pm
Yes
Momma J
· May 27, 2018 at 12:20 pm
Thank you for the reminder - I tend to over book!
tcr!
· May 26, 2018 at 7:16 pm
tcr!
· May 25, 2018 at 4:25 pm
tism
· May 25, 2018 at 4:39 pm
“He’s a Roomba and he’ll never ever be any good” The Crystals
elongdo
· May 25, 2018 at 7:25 pm
That label is not going to improve his attitude
heather
· May 25, 2018 at 9:31 pm
Damn that roomba!
tcr!
· May 25, 2018 at 10:56 am
Life was so much simpler when I only had to choose between The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire for my morning movie.
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