Month: May 2020

As we all have started the long,dangerous,rugged terrain from a fantasy inspired journey. We trusted and followed at least one tour guide. Believing a safe road exists. Not all roads are in the best condition and not some experiences. Not for some returning travelers. Walking the main trail we explore off the beaten path. We all get curious. We notice other trekkers absorbing the shock of hardship so we think we can do the same. If we knew the condition of the road ahead we may not have left home. We need to discover new experiences. Some not worth finding but we believe it is. Tired of living in an unhealthy environment we think of a better place to be. We make the trek to a better terrain. Upon arrival we notice better surroundings. Inspiring us to write about nature. Some people stay here for a short time regretting having done so. Others promise to stay the rest of their lives. The opportunity is always available. Want to live forever in this enchanted land? It’s called sobriety.

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Loyalty comes to an end. Moving on to pursue better experiences. Bragging every drunk like discovering a gold mine. Probably what it would take to recover. A mine of gold. Not much interest in study and conformity? Learning how to live sober requires ethics and other subjects of common sense. Toss them aside? Had no use for them? Would you think different if you became a parent? Why wait to become one? Why not live it for yourself being single? Hard to get motivated without a purpose? Might disturb your thinking? Feel it is all for nothing? Can’t praise and honor and be proud of your own pursuits? A drunk makes us feel like a king in a castle. Support your drunken royalty. Stagger up your diamond studded stairway. Wake up in some rat and bug infested room. Your house, a jail, tool shed. Discover your decayed life. Down on your luck with no trace of pity. All the glitter of the stairway diamonds has faded away. Castle crumbled to dust, The king’s crown has been lost in the wind. Sobriety is a life of proud moments. Satisfaction. As long as we stay sober we will always be proud of the hard work that created us.

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We struggle with great pains to build a luxurious castle we call a dream home. All the expensive items in it just sit there entertaining the eye. The life of sobriety entertains us. With only one requirement. “The desire to stop drinking”. We lose interest in expensive things over time. Donate them and buy more to keep ourselves satisfied. Money is gone. Another rummage in the plans. My sobriety is a luxury I can afford. I wouldn’t trade it for all the precious stones that will fill my pockets. You will? Is this the price of a relapse? Drink to celebrate the discovery. Then the sale of the stones. In a staggering stride who will you hand the money to? More addictions? What will you say when the party is over and the last penny has been spent? Nothing precious about the life now. Morning comes and no money or precious stones for the next drunk. You feel like all the rest of the parade goers marching to out of tune music feeling sick and foolish in your own private fools parade. Is relapse precious to you now?

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Alcohol consumption is a plan by marketers to sell booze,encourage drinkers,and make it fun. With many promotions. An idea the marketers want us to follow. Laughing all the way to the bank. Giving us beliefs that life’s problems can be tossed aside with a few drinks and at times too many. Booze is only a money maker. Have a few drinks,relax and forget about the problems of the day. Problems goes away like shaking the dust off our clothing. We believe this nonsense. Wearing down our health and having fun doing it. We follow the marketers convincing ourselves that drinking is not a bad thing. Glamorizing the parties. Caught up in the lifestyle we eventually leave all our priorities behind. Why follow the marketers and increase their sales and decrease our health. Travel down a different road and drive past the bars. Someday booze will not be made. A health drink will replace it. Make it a new drink of choice.

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We were made for glory meaning God was proud of his creation of humanity. But our glory faded a long time ago. God being disappointed with his creation and also in humanity. Lack of respect and loyalty and not living the ten commandments. First we disobeyed then we died on the inside spiritually then we started dying on the outside. Meaning a physical death. Then we turned to our own devices. Meaning to leave someone unsupervised to do whatever they want. Then we said “God we don’t need you at all. Leave us alone”. And we wonder why the world is the way it is. Look in the mirror. We have met the enemy and he is us. This is true we are our own worst enemy. We decide to destroy our lives by accepting offers of addictions and putting them in our mouths and killing off our brain. We had a choice we can say no but didn’t. Don’t blame them blame ourselves for our own decline in health and hardship. Now we can complain or change our lifestyle and to a better way of living and thinking. The glamor of the party life is now a disaster and so are we for now until we longer live it. the sober life has glamorized becoming popular with the boozer desperate to salvage what is left of the ruins of our lives. To create useful persons from the twisted and useless scrap of the destroyed minds of boozers.

The faded life of booze and the glory of a sober life.

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We are the entertainers and some else is running the show. We are all followers. We couldn’t lead ourselves out of a room made of doors. We think we can solve every issue. Don’t pretend to have all the answers. Talk to people. Depression and confusion in a dark desolate room is a lonely place to die. “They’re always looking for better one’s”. Applies to mates and other uses. Keep in mind people around you are doing this. Don’t let people find someone better than you. Straighten up and be the better man. Good chance your mate is doing this right now. Looking for someone else. No one likes a show off and it’s hard for me to believe that you like being one. Drinkers are this way to entertain people and to amuse themselves. No problem it only happens while drunk but for some people it happens while sober. A mate tries to get serious with you and all you have to offer is amusement pretending to avoid the hardships of the real world that we should be taking serious. Start pouring booze into your body then a clown starts to emerge trying to hide from the failure you believe you are from other people too. You can’t fool people into thinking this is the real you and lying to them and yourself. No person on earth can be comfortable living this way. You must be miserable and feeling foolish and hard to face yourself in the mirror the next morning sobering up. This is one reason why living sober is better than living like a fake pretending to a man without hardship. You need to live a sober life and show the world that you are a better person that can face reality while being sober. Why be a pretender and disgrace yourself when you can be real and sober. Show this off at your next party. Will make an impression for others to follow.

You must feel totally destroyed and very low so give it up and live a happy life.

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Strange how we remember the times we got drunk and can’t recall the last time we had pizza. Is it important to keep these in mind? Every drunk is a trophy and we hang them up on our ego like a mantle. To sit and admire? Conversation piece? Something to be proud of? Wave your flags and March to the sad tune. The Death March. Our crushed egos will rise back up from the dead and see a sign of life again. Ourselves. Fresh from the warm dying embers and keep the eternal flame burning. Recognize the value we have hidden inside of us and be aware of the importance and the personal rewards we experience at the start of each day to display it like a flag you are proud to raise and let people see it when they see walking around. You will have the constant feeling of respect for your life. Living sober is respecting your life placing a value on others and yourself. People who live depressed feel they have lost it all but some don’t look for value to replace what they lost. Stop before this happens and a sober life is a value in itself. Let it grow into a quality life and be something special inside of you and inside other people around you. Keep it growing and enjoy the daily harvest. I know that booze is a fungus that will kill it off. Fungus cannot kill off sobriety. Being sober is the only thing that will improve us with a good diet everyday and exercise. You can’t have all this and be a boozer too. Respect the good life only you can create. Adding disrespect and disgrace to your life is abuse of the worst kind. When you feel like a fool you know something is totally wrong and needs to be corrected.

Sobriety is the only way to put value and honor back into your life.

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I’m in with in crowd. I go where the in crowd goes. I know what the in crowd knows. We breeze up and down the street. We get respect from the people we meet. The in crowd is out of sight. We got our own way of walking. We got our own way of talking. I don’t care where you’ve been. You ain’t been nowhere until you’ve been in with the in crowd. The in crowd is the sober crowd. A group of really cool do your thing group of guys. If you ain’t sober,you ain’t there. Other guys imitate us. But the original’s still the greatest. Get in with the sober in crowd. And be one of the greatest.

The in crowd. Song by Dobie Gray. 1963

July 26,1940-December 6, 2011. age 71

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Many people don’t know that the reason we go into depression is because of our own disappointment. Lack of faith. Lack of trust. Full of doubt. Convinced we will fail at all of our attempts. More depression with the feeling of being left behind. There are far worse things in life than being left behind. Don’t watch life pass us by. Make important changes to improve ourselves. Addictions thrive on failure. The longer we use them the more we fail. One dose at a time. We travel so far down that road we may lose our way back. Lost wandering in the middle of nowhere. Lose our mind,body and soul. The lost soul. That’s us. Find our way out of the addictions nightmare and live peaceful. Live sober. Living each day with the good feeling that you left addictions behind you. Waking up not having to find and use them ever again. Tired of feeling all worn out and not worth two cents? There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For me living a life of sobriety feels like I have found it.

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