Wow it kills me because I lost a couple really good jobs over drinking / drugs and now that I'm sober I can't find a job at all yet he still has one! Oh we'll I certainly don't wish bad on the poor fellow, I just had to shake my head at this.
You have a good point about what a gift sobriety can be and how we do get those reminders when we see others in the middle of active addiction. After I got cleaned up I had to watch my beloved father get two DUI's in a month, become a missing person for 3 days, go to the hospital over 10 times, dislocate his hip and shoulder while drunk, chase his wife (my mom) of 30 years away to the point she quit speaking to him, alienate his own mother and all his friends, loose a house, sleep in his car, and almost kill another guy in a bar fight, etc. All those were pretty good reminders of why I'm working a program of recovery and why I never plan to pick up a drink or a drug again.
Good post thank you.