Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Connections

   Drunk dreams, drunken dreams. What different worlds these are. Sober now, my drunk dreams are nearly always nightmares. When I was drunk and drinking and drowning in liquor, my dreams were oh-so different, because my life was different. My life was alcohol then. My life is sobriety, now. Living soberly, now. But the Sirens of Alcohol still call on me from a distant shore. If I stay connected, I will not fall apart. Connections with other alcoholics seems always to work. I am not a lab rat in a horrible experiment gone wrong.

   To remain sober, I have to remain human and to be human is to be connected.

 Daily vigilance/Daily reprieve. Today, that is enough.


from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 87)

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