I also just think that I finally after all these years grew up. I can't say for certain why I grew up, but I feel like an adult for the first time in my life. And it turns out it's a pretty terrific feeling.
And this
I believe that it's was and always will be a choice to place the bottle to my lips. While I certainly do not think that I chose to be a person who could not control his alcohol consumption, it was a choice that I made, over and over again, to continue drinking.
The values that I have wihin me were always injured and stifled by my returns to the bottle. Those values are the same ones that today I am able to access and elevate as a sober person.
Totally agree on both points-- what is it about lawyers that keeps us in second grade? Maybe its all the judging and back stabbing we do of each other, who knows.. but it stinks.
Glad we "grew up."
On the values point, I am with the love the addict hate the disease school, but I am sure we can all agree on that!
Congrats,
Drops