Beginnings. There are always beginnings.

My child has warned me not to out myself as an alcoholic. Sober that is, never the less, an alcoholic. Shhh I am warned, that I should not inform others of my disease.  Somehow am I still tainted by those choices to have a drink which turned into a decision leading me ultimately to consuming around 600 milliliters in three hours each night before bed, for the last three years of my drinking alcohol.  But I wasn't an alcoholic I told myself.  I did not drive when I had consumed more than the equivalency tests showed I should.  Why I thought to myself, "I am an Honor's Scholar."  See there, "I am not an alcoholic," I reassured myself; and then once home drowned my neurons into an ethanol induced stupor.  Yes being honest with myself sure came with some brutal realizations.  Sure sucked being me for a while.  However, I sucked it up buttercup.  Then again does not everybody at some point in their life think that it sucks?  Meanwhile, most everybody forgets to deep breathe, take a second, then realize soon this will pass into another minute of life.

I want to save more for later so enough about me.  This is just my release that in some small way I may out myself as an alcoholic; and without repercussions from society for being a sober alcoholic and all of its stigmatas; as my child has forewarned me of.

This is my way of SHOUTING out to the world that; I AM SOBER.  THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I AM SOBER AT LAST.  Okay then, well at least coming up to my twenty-second month of sobriety Thanking God each and everyday.  Also remembering to love and forgive myself and others.

The grass is green in this pasture of sobriety I forage.  Peace.

I am sure not all readers will agree with me; It is what it is tho.
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