Cog wrote:Got to disagree with you Ibon. You can not quit for others or to please others. You must quit for yourself first. An alcoholic will always feel remorse for the damage he has caused others but that remorse will fade. He will think, this time will be different. This time I will control my drinking. The cycle will continue.
The alcoholic has to reach the conclusion that he is powerless over alcohol. He can never control it. The only thing he can do is not drink today. Repeat that daily. Making amends to others will follow. But it never works to quit for other's sakes. You must quit for yourself.
MD wrote:OK, that's it. There are plenty of reasons to live and stay sober, big bucket list or die trying!
pstarr wrote:At times over the years (quite a long time ago) there were serious productive discussions as per timing, mitigation, politics etc.
pstarr wrote:Even the most jaded would have believed that good honest discussion is valuable, even if it wouldn't have changed this course of history. We will never know.
MD wrote:It's truly a conundrum. A thousand things to say that can only be unblocked by a brain fuel that unleashes words without the ability to be coherent.
I feel like a zombie. Fit, healthy, eat right, but my brain is near dead. simple math or programming, which were once natural and effortless are now a struggle.
Age is part of it.
Blah. I'm done with words.
Walkabout. I can do that. Shut my mouth and just wander about, while I still have the capacity and resource
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