When You Can Identify...

                                It's the one shoe kicked off that I can identify with.

I'd like to thank Randy N for asking me to join in posting to Sober Days And Nights 24/7.  I"m grateful that I've found another soul as a Driver (caps intended) who I can identify with.

When I found myself driven from a drink to a drink on a daily basis I had to admit that I couldn't do it.  I couldn't live with it nor live without it.  The one shoed girl was me.  I could care less how I looked to my family.  I'd race to the house for that bottle.  Once I had it cradled in my hands and pouring, I lost all caring about anything.

I had tried to stop and found I couldn't.  I had nothing to fill the hole that is left in us when we remove our addiction.  Nature abhors a vacum and when you stop an active addiction you better have something in it's place.  I had to change and I had not....result....back to drinking.  Plain, simple and truth.

Seeing the Poster struck me in the gut.  I had arrived at that point in recovery where it was time to be truthful or time to drink.  I had done the 12 Steps and was doing them again.  I had arrived at the point of action.  The point where resting on my laurels was all I was doing.  It was a repeat of what happened over 20 years ago and I knew exactly where that lead too.

I could identify....

And the Girl with the Big Book?  I wanted what she has....
I could identify there too.

When you see your life mirrored in the lives and art of others....

I can identify there...

Being Sober is not easy for a "normal" person....an impossibility for an Alcoholic.
But, with help and love from others it is simple.

Yeah, When I can identify I don't have to be the one shoed dude....just some one who cares.

Thanks Randy

Walt
aka Heydriver