I have to admit, driving past that liquor store on the days I go into the office can be quite tempting. They have a fine selection of ice cold IPAs in nice big pint cans. Four packs and six packs. All lined up and waiting to be drank.
Despite the meditation taking the edge off, I needed a distraction. Something to think about other than drinking. Looking around the family room, I saw our long neglected Wii sitting off to the side of the tv.
“At least she didn’t ask me to pick up any beer,” I thought to myself as I grabbed the car keys and drove the 1.5 pine wooded miles to the store. Five minutes later, I shifted the car into park and headed in. I was a man on a mission.
I’ve been questioning the increasingly slippery slope of my use disorder and considering a path toward sobriety for years now. This questioning was driven in large part by a few ‘over the top’ drunken escapades.
sobriety noun 1. High seriousness of manner or bearing: graveness, gravity, sedateness, solemnity, solemnness, staidness. 2. The practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors: abstinence, dryness, soberness, teetotalism, temperance. My name is Dominic Yarborough. Thank you for joining […]
And there it is…
“There is neither heaven nor earth,
Only snow,
Falling incessantly”
-Hashin