Like sand through an hourglass, so our the days of our lives. Chronic, serial drama can always be found on daytime TV… and in the lives of addicts and alcoholics. Outstanding warrants, unpaid debts, reneged obligations, blackout repercussions and of course the lies, lies, lies- an alcoholic’s life is a sad, sloppy soap opera going from languid lulls to contrived bursts of passion and always in the direction of the next drink.
“Our lives used to be so full of drama and now it’s not,” Kruger said. ~ Ocala Star Banner
Plagued by problem drinking his entire life, Michael Kruger ultimately lost his children to the state after abandoning them for alcohol. Now a year later and after a successful court ordered treatment offered in place of a jail sentence, Michael has been reunited with his children and fiancée. A benefit rarely discussed, Michael certainly has begun to appreciate one of the finer points of recovery; a content and orderly life.
Knowing exactly what I would have thought back in my drinking days, the alcoholic reading this will immediately replace “content and orderly” with “boring”. So I hope that they too will click “Read more” to continue…
The truth of the matter is that those of us in recovery that have tamed our soap opera lives of constant drama and perpetual personal tragedy don’t slowly fade away into a blah background. Far from it, rather finding that we have so much more sand in our hourglass that we can dedicate to our families, profession, travel, volunteer work, or the arts- the real passions of our life. Instead of spending all of our time spinning a web of lies or drinking to forget, we spend it building a better reality.
Helping others, taking advantage of every opportunity, and even having the luxury of just enjoying the moment- when you have more sand in the hourglass the world is anything but boring.
