My Dream
I have a dream. I almost got it going but due to the loss of Samantha it got delayed.
There is a building a couple of blocks from me that looks like a castle. I want that building and I want to buy it and turn it into a rehab center called the Castle of Hope.
I know a lot of addicts that are lost souls. They are intelligent and could have bright futures if they could kick the habit.
I am someone these people can come to for help. Not for money but as a friend who cares.
I was a drunk and now I am a reformed drunk. I am not a recovering alcoholic. I can go into a bar and order a coke. I can tend bar and not even be tempted by the bottle. I quit because I wanted too. I have had 2 beers and 2 cold ducks in the last 12 years and did not have the urge to have more.
Because of AA and NA philosophy that once a alcoholic or addict always an alcoholic or addict there are a lot of people like me that don't even try to quit. Why quit if it is a life long worry about one more drink? They are important and they do a lot of good but they are not for everyone.
I do not have that worry. I had an attitude change. I changed my outlook on life. I get high on life.
What I do is to try to show the way to that attitude change to those I know. I do promote the rehab but also self help.
AA and NA are like religions. What I did is not possible to them. When they heard I went to bars they said it is not possible. They remind me of what I was like and why I quit.
I was tending bar and a customer asked, “How can you tend bar and not go back to drinking?”
“That’s easy.” I answered, “I take one look at you and the others when the get drunk and I know I do not want to drink again.”
© Copyright 2001 Lee W. Gaylord
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