Writings, thoughts and observations from the calm waters of The Lagoon
Welcome to David‘s Literary Lagoon where the tide is high but the author is not. Be advised that occasional squalls pop up but the Captain never sleeps and the ship is seaworthy. Thirty four years of living sober has brought me to this place of serenity.
AA is a God program…If that word drives you out the bottle will drive you in…Instead of using the word God refer to a “Power greater than self”…Yes, practicing alcoholics are insane; as in doing the same things over and over, expecting different results…The DESIRE to drink is taken away, therefore having nothing to do with abstaining. It has nothing to do with what you drink or how much or how often…But everything to do with what it does to you…
There are three pertinent ideas: (1) that we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives… (2) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism…
(3) That God could and would if He were sought…
I have been sober for almost 35 years and live a wonderful life. No behavioral elements of the human condition are more difficult to facilitate without alcohol; none…
If you would like further information on sobriety do not hesitate to contact me at: saailer@ec.rr.com
AA Big Book (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Drop the hook…Welcome To The Lagoon.
Such as joyous welcome. I wonder how many have tried out your suggestion?
Permission to come aboard, Captain?
what a beautiful pic!
I have always puzzled over this notion of sobriety. I have a very good friend who is as you are. He has been for 25 years, or perhaps it is 30 now. In any case, it does not seem that long to me, not more than 4 or 5 in old person years–similar, I think to dog years.
I am what he and some of his AA/NA affiliated friends call a “Normie.” It’s not as though I do not understand the phenomena involving these issues of sobriety; it is merely that I wonder how abstaining completely from something can give someone power over it. I do know it does. I do know it has brought good things and stability to such people who pursue sobriety in this way…. It is just that…. Particularly alcohol has been part of the human condition since well. 80 or 100 thousand years? Or more. I know that that is around the time where dogs began to associate with humans–so we see in the fossil record, in any case.
There are certain behavioural elements of the human condition which are more difficult to facilitate without alcohol–just as there are certain such things that are very difficult to facilitate without dogs. I am not an anthropologist by any means, I am a scientist who deals very heavily in mathematics. My brain is not quite entirely normal and I do have a knack, let us say, for pattern recognition.
As such, my mathematical “spidey-senses” tell me there must be a way that someone can partake in such things without the risk of excess regardless of personality or even genetic predisposition.
I am not sure why I have expressed all of this here, but… well… there you are.
Regardless of any spirit-related musings (of any kind) I do, Captain, like the cut of your jib. Keep up the smooth sailing by all means! And most assuredly, keep a keen eye on the horizon for any signs of pirates.