Just a silly story that I wanted to share with you all:) I left college about 10 years ago.. It was about that time that years of drinking started to catch up with me and I ceased being a "functional alcoholic". I simply cared nothing for anything aside from my torrid affair with the bottle. Some things fell into a pit of forgotten responsibilities.. Amongst them was the tuition owed for my last semester at school.. Oops! So I dealt with this matter of thousands of dollars owed by simply ignoring the debt. Didn't answer phone when it could be a bill collector ( I had quite a few after me). Didn't open mail.. You know the deal. After a couple years of this, my university filed a court case. I show up looking all 'young professional' and a payment plan is agreed upon, which I completely ignore, of course. I move, they can't find me, they find me, I talk a good game, repeat. This debt grew to overwhelming proportions in my head. It became one of a hundred things that, while drinking, I was a victim of and couldn't deal with- I'd NEVER be able to pay this debt. Well, today I receive I'm the mail (that I'm no longer just throwing in the trash unopened) a letter from the court stating that the case has been dismissed because the defendant (me) has paid the debt in full;) I was also shocked to see the original date of first court appearance was 2005.. 7 years that hung over my head.. And within 6 months it's paid in full. Yikes! Maybe there is something to this sobriety thing? Many lessons learned here, for sure. The first of which would be running from problems doesn't make them non existent. Also, it's sooooo much easier to just face things and deal with them head on. ALSO.. How much $ was I really spending on booze?!? Haha.. I thought I was always broke! Lol. Just one of many gifts of sobriety:)