Go forth

Just an innocent sip and from this moment forward, life dramatically changes its course.

Alcoholism

A cycle so vicious death seems a viable option.

It's warm out today

Today is the first warm day we've had this spring. I always get a bit depressed on days like today. I used to start drinking heavy during the spring and it would continue well past Christmas.

21

Before the age of 21, I dropped out of high school, spent time in mental institutions, got into a drunken car crash, lost my drivers license and was kicked out of the military after serving just 14 months.
Alcohol had ruined my life even before I turned the legal drinking age.

Memories

No pain as bad as the pain of blackout and squandered finances.

A thought

If I don't stop drinking today will my past become my future?

Possibilities

For me nothing else is possible without sobriety.

Harmful

Every human crack and crevice does the harm of alcohol abuse fill.

When motivation wears off...

the power of daily prayer delivers.

I've learned...

after nearly 18 years without a drink that I CAN'T do it alone.

For some of us...

an early death is last call.

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is anything but routine. It's complete chaos!

Devastating

Between cradle and grave alcohol delivers a devastating blow.

Sobriety

I see the sun during the day, instead of dreaming about it in the darkness of the night.

Drunkenness

To drunk to remember anything else except the next drink.

Glass houses

A glass house with no stones. Alcohol is the only enemy I will ever need.

Time

I drink on a beautiful spring day, and awaken 8 months later in the dead of winter.
The loss of time and chill of remorse haunt me.

The killer within me...

is the reason I choose to pray everyday.
When I drink I can't be trusted.

Good

Sobriety is good, not easy.

Interruption

22 years if service to God and others was interrupted by alcohol.

One day...

one hour, one moment at a time.
Whatever it takes!

Excitement

Sobriety is a free man on a journey who's conclusion is uncertain.
To me that's thrilling.

Looking back

I see myself as I used to be and say why? I look at myself as I am now and say why did I wait so long?

Love

A mothers love need never be wasted on a drunken son.

Sobriety...

Is all about getting back to normal.

People

One day I ran out of people. I was alone on the streets with only the bottle.
That was a scary situation.

Remorse

Somewhere, right now, someone is waking up full of remorse.
It doesn't have to be that way.

Recovery

Sit tight and wait. Know this, sobriety shall come.

Rage

My rage only demonstrated the pain on the inside.

Drunkeness

Stay with me, stay with me and never let the bottle take me away.

Rags to riches...

Until alcohol took over.

Drunkenness

Hopelessness flows from the bottle.

Sobriety

I see myself now and wonder who was I way back when?

Sobriety

We're there once was a hole lies a mound of love.

I run

I run from myself, but the bottle catches me.

The first drink...

It's all we need to overcome.

The first drink

The wreckage of my past can be traced to the first drink.

Honesty

Honesty gets me where I need to be in recovery.

Pray

When I can't stand it anymore, I get down on my knees and pray.

Going nowhere

I travel nowhere in circles. Always clutching my drink.

Going for broke

I am a broken man with or without the bottle.

Who am I?

I had become a creation of my own abuse.

Darkness

From dusk until dawn my illness took me to rock bottom.

Alcoholism

Hardly a day goes by I'm not drinking or thinking about drinking.

Recovery

I seek the source of my pain without my friend the bottle.

The cycle

I hurt, I drink, I hurt.

Heartless

My heart cries out, and I drown it promptly.

One drink

My soul I sell, all for a drink.

Alcoholic journey

Far, far away is the person I used to be:(

Mess you up!

Drinking and alcoholism just don't mix.

Misery

The hell of alcoholism is a place with no doors.

Creation

That who I am does not include drunkenness.

Abuse

I more I abused alcohol, the more I abused myself.

Live long

Cheat death, quit drinking!!

False confidence

I walk tall, I live large because the drink allows me to do so.

Alcohol

A friend by my side, whom I refuse to let go, and all the while, he is killing me.

When I drank

I was out of control, traveling 90mph and ready to hit a wall.

Tough days

Some days the best you can do is put your hands in your pockets, your head down and just not drink!!

Sobriety

So often I think back on what was a drunken mess of a life. I now live my life in complete gratitude.

Letting go

I could feel my life ending in one hand, and a bottle of gin in the other.
I need to completely let go and let God, if I were going to survive.

I know this

I would not have still been drinking. I would be long dead.

Walk the line

Only one drink separates many from peace, joy and satisfaction. The distance between drunkenness and sobriety is often a very thin line.

Sobriety

I now hear laughter and love. I once heard darkness and panic.

God's Grace

I woke up one day sober. That was no accident.

Can't stand me

I could not take myself for an entire day. Drinking helped me cope.

Time

So little time to change. Too much time to drink.

Growth

I am a child in a mans body with a beer in my hand.
Alcoholism has taken away all emotional growth.

Nothing going on

I have no plans other than not to drink.

Dreams

From dreams shall nothing come if the bottle is to blame.

Stubborn

My life, my walk, my way, my addiction.

Alcoholism

A boy so young. A drink so innocent. And a man so confused by misery and addiction.

Just me

I roam sober with thick scars of past alcoholic bliss. My disorder shall always spell my name.

The way it was

I see who I am now and wonder how I survived under the bottles influence.

Sobriety

None too sober are those who serve others instead of themselves.

Drowning

Damned and defeated, I drank even harder. It was all that I knew.

New journey, new life

I look deep within and attempt to find out who I am. All I was when I drank was a servant to the bottle.

Take a trip

Alcohol took me to a great place. It was on the way back that I became disoriented and lost for days.

The journey

Opportunity wasted, memories lost. Spirituality realized, sobriety accomplished.

No more tears

I cry no more, for alcohol no longer owns my soul.

My first drink was unplanned and innocent. My last drink was unavoidable and necessary. In between were years of misery.

Grace

God's grace always takes away the desire to drink.

Glory

I see where man's glory begins and ends and I realize alcohol has no part in either.

Who we hurt

The innocent and those we love the most are hurt by our inability to stop drinking.

A sad song

Wasted and worried all week long.

False sense of security

I was never intimidated or ashamed when alcohol was flowing through me.

The wanderer

I wandered with a bottle in my hand wondering why, when, how and where I became this ugly mess.

You can't catch me

Run away, run away, the bottle is always chasing.

My resume

Lie, cheat, steal, drama, and constant drunkenness was what I was on my best day as a drunk.

Who knew

Who knew what that first drink would turn me into. A verbal abuser, full of obsession, anger, misery and remorse.

Bad timing

I needed someone or something. I crossed paths with alcohol at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

Creature of a bad habit

That first drink turned me into a creature I did not know.

Last call

Last call for life!

The way it used to be

I see the error of my ways and yet I still reach for another drink.

Who am I?

Life or death. Drink and die. This is my disease.

Straight talk

I swallowed my pride and stopped swallowing alcohol.

Reaching out

I drank alone and I sobered up with many.

Driving drunk

No matter what it takes, I selfishly take myself to the next drink.

My best friend

I get no where on a bright, sunny day and experience the bliss and torture of my best friend booze.

Impatient

Immediate gratification is booze in a bottle.

So much in common

Seldom do I see another alcoholic unlike me.

Going up

Each drink brought me closer to death. I got off at the bottom floor just in time.

Scattered thoughts

My mind is a collection of hope, remorse and willingness

One day at a time

I live everyday one drink away from glory or destruction.

Feelings

Put down the bottle and feel what I feel.

FROG

Fully Rely On God!!
That's sometimes the only option we have(and need)!

Mentally

Mentally I have all kinds of theories. But that's just the alcoholic part of me thinking out loud.

Drink up

Drink up is no longer music to my ears.

Be on the lookout

When you find something that matters, hold on tight!