Each time we get high on addictions the comfort will not arrive. The high itself is no comfort to many people myself included. Getting high from booze was not a problem back in the day. Thinking there is no better source. The ultimate life. Waking up from this life of strange images and found my natural high and never looked back. An evening of doses and distorted scenes. Where is the pleasure in that? For each one we consume gives our lives more problems than the one before. When the feeling comes over us how silly the life of booze is this will be our beginning of our life of sobriety. This is how it started with me and stayed sober for many years. A Natural High is a cheerful and joyous feeling happening naturally on it’s own. No one decides when it happens. Sensible thinking is refusing addictions and let our free spirited nature decide the activity that can only provide our Natural High. We have been told this by sober people and ignored it each time. Thinking we chose the best life. The days of pretending and lying to ourselves. Totally miserable on the inside and a pretend happiness on the outside. The nonsense we speak that only we will listen to. Standing alone in the darkness after all the people have walked away. Telling ourselves that we are strong enough that it will not bother us. One day the booze will dry up and all the people we knew will return. I lost interest in booze and became a follower of a Natural High. What do you wish to do command or obey? Sobriety or remorse? kill it off or keep it alive? Saying we would like to quit the booze means we are not enjoying it at all. In the same breath we say we like it we are making fools of ourselves. We thought we were stronger than Booze and we were wrong. We struggled with it and lost. Accept your loss and the lesson learned. No sense in a rematch. Unless it’s Basketball. After being sober for awhile you will see the good life you missed. Stay away from the phony bar scenes and the miserable person you are creating for yourself. Leave the addictions high behind you and take to the sky on a Natural High.
Natural High by Bloodstone. 1973
see ya’ next time
