Originally Posted by
daredevil 
I no longer have a good reason to procrastinate (to duck life, as you said).
But I still do sometimes; it's a troubling issue that needs to be rectified.
I can't blame it on the booze anymore.
I'm reading the Jungian analyst/author James Hollis. I really recommend him, especially to you DD.
In many ways the booze was just the easiest, most accepted means to avoid - and it's the avoidance and whence it derives, that we are truly tasked with resolving if we are going to overcome our Selves.