Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 14,196
Hi Fluffer. I had a good friend that developed alcoholism at an early age, about 18 years old. We drank together always, I became well acquainted with his family. I'm still in contact with his brother. My friend was 50 when he died in his sleep from a large gastrointestinal ulcer from drinking. Doctors told him and his quit drinking or die. I'm 66 years old and wonder how I have survived by being in recovery for long periods of time. I wanted to change but my buddy was powerless to help himself and refused any help.
There is a principle in life called impermanence. All things will end because that is the cosmic order of all things. How deeply I contemplate the end of all, the better I understand how to deal with loss. I may morn for a long time. I can rest easy knowing the "why" all will come to an end.