When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

My idea of social drinking was: "If you are going to have a drink, SO SHALL I!"

Never had a concept of one or two. I was quite shocked to find that we don't metabolize the alcohol like other people do. They drink and it disappears, we drink and hang onto it. Sounds like most things in my life.

Love this, briing it back up as a good reminder that it is the first one that get me. It is the engine that kills you, not the caboose. As someone shared not long ago, "I didn't know it was the first one, I kept saying, "I shouldn't have had that last one." I think this applies to all substances. The substance is but a symptom of our disease, the problem was always me. It is a disease. It is a drug that is cunning, baffling and powerful, and I too, can't drink safely. I don't know where it is going to take me.

In today, I like those natural highs in life. Those priceless gifts that come when I look for them.