Waiting…
it’s a funny thing, this waiting for the good things to come my way. If I just sit there, they might come my way and then again, they might not. The chances that I will wake up in the morning, happy contented and free aren’t that good.
If I want things to change in my life, I must change first. I used to think that if everybody would just get off my case, if I had that car, that job, that girl, then I would be happy. If the world changed then I wouldn’t need to drink so much.
I can only speak for myself, but that thinking kept me drunk and in untold misery.
I eventually found myself in the company of sober men at the end of my drinking career. And they explained that in order to change my circumstances, I needed to change myself.
Just stopping drinking didn’t fix a thing. In fact, for me, it made things worse. My last coping skill had been removed. Undrunk, I was emotionally naked in a hostile world. I was at the jumping off point.
But there is a solution. I found it. And it didn’t cost me a dime.
Type "alcoholics anonymous" and the town you are in into the search field of your browser.
Write down the address and the time of the next meeting, and show up. It won’t cost you any money, and only an hour of your time.
Tell them what you told us.
That, waitingformytimetocome is the best advice I can think of to offer you.
Richard
