Posted by 64bowtie on December 5, 2008, at 0:51:48
This doesn't have to be an alcoholic Christmas...
People drink in excess to 1. forget what they've done, and 2. what those things might say about who they are... Truly-mature adults never intentionally connect those two states of being... So, who are the alcoholics hiding their distorted and defective true natures from???
Yep!!! Themselves!!!
Since no one else is looking at them the way they think people are, they end up hiding from themselves, and missing the happiness that can be Christmas!!!
Alcohol, first of all, is only a bad habit and Second of all, its being complicated by the chemical dependence on the sugar rush from the alcohol... Think back how many past alcoholics you have been around who just happen to have acquired Diabetes along the way....
Forget the excuse that its an incurable addiction (whether true or not), think of all the good they are missing out on while inducing whole body numbness...
Start a new habit: enjoy life, with an undistorted clear view of it, independent of what you GUESS others might think; an emancipated view of the "self" and of the spirit... No more hiding out...
Note: If this seems (painfully) pollyana, consider my last 22 years involved with 12 step programs, and the several years before that I staunchly remained dry-clean&sober without 12 step programs... I am not dellusional about alcohol and alcoholics... I'm just not comfortable with the denial and indecision at all levels that plagues everyone trying to help, along with everyone else who seems to be trying to drink, and rationalise the mess that is their lives...
No matter what I write here, I'm intentionally attacking the denial and indecision that is ubiquitous (ever present)... I am certain today that we can all do so much better without our denial and indecision...
Rod
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