THIRTY YEARS OF SANITY

As a lad, coming up on an Indiana farm, WLS out of Chicago would beam out 50,000 watts of country music.  One of my favorites was the mellow voice of Eddie Arnold singing “Make The World Go Away”

A couple of years later, in a different setting, I found something that would really make the world go away.  Alcohol.  And the more I drank of it and the more often I drank it  the more of my world went away.  But it always came back and worse than it was before.

On this date in 1865, Lincoln was shot, and on this date in 1912, the Titanic went to the bottom.  And it has been thirty years ago today, April 14^th, 2013, since I took my last drink of alcohol.

I lost many things during the twenty six years I drank and I continued to lose things after I stopped.  A house, my car, my dog and my family.

I have gained back many things throughAlcoholics Anonymous.  My dignity, for one.  I have learned a new way of living by following the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.  I have learned to be honest---- with myself.  I have made amends, where possible, to those I have harmed.  Not all of them were accepted, but the important thing is that they were made.  The program does not say that I should make amends to those I have pissed off.

I am as close as I can be to knowing peace.