"Once an Alcoholic"
From my 24 hour book:
"Always an alcoholic, Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we have admitted we are alcoholics, we must have no reservations of any kind, nor any lurking notion that some day we will be immune to alcohol. What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink? Parrellel with sound reasoning, there inevitably runs some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. There is little thought of what the terrific consequences may be".
Have I given up all excuses for taking a drink?
(end of book quote)
For me.....I really think I have given up all excuses for a drink....at least so far....52 days.....and although many bad things have happened already that would have in the past gave me "reason" to drink, I have not picked up a drink.
Now I try to think of the reasons why I should NOT drink.