Your first step of the long journey ahead is your first drink. The curiosity and the fear and the disasters of stories told. Waiting somewhere beyond the blue haze at every turn of the road. Feeling tired traveling we need a drink. As time goes on this was our first mistake. If only we could have made it our last. The real fear should have been many more mistakes to come. Too much confidence covered up our warning signs. Sitting in the darkness with the full moon shining upon us. Very little sleep with curious thoughts and worries of what will become of us. Stress will be too much to control. Stops along the road for a binge or two. What is at the end of the road? The start of a career? The stress will be there when you arrive. More booze to end the stress? We all know that many drinkers fail because of the booze. With their money gone and living with the poor. Many discomforts and hardships before this long stretch of road ends. Not knowing how to solve them many doses of booze will follow. If we would have looked around and seen the disasters Booze made of other people we may have refused to take our first drink. All of us drinkers think of these ideas too late. This is good advice before taking the first dose.
The good life is somewhere beyond. We just haven’t gone far enough to find it. Read up on Alcoholics Anonymous and forget the road trip.
see ya’ next time
