Some of us clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. Our families didn't suffer, because we always paid the bills and seldom drank at home. Our business associates didn't suffer, because we were usually on the job. Our reputations didn't suffer, because we were certain few knew of our drinking.Those who did would sometimes assure us that, after all, a lively bender was only a good man's fault. What real harm, therefore, had we done? No more, surely, than we could easily mend with a few casual apologies.
This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can be changed only by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions.
very good point in this one, for those of us who have been able to hobble along and continue to deny the realities in between.
Turning it into a positive, We need to have some purposeful remembering. And how it does hurt, take away from the richness of our lives, and especially our offspring and spouses and the rest of the good in our lives.
The motives to keep sober are infinite. Mental physical spiritual relating social maturational....
Good thoughts to ponder and to apply to our lives.
