Flight
A simple guy making his way
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Flight
Flight.... It's a movie with Denzel Washington. It's a powerful movie I thought. It's about addiction.
Spoiler alert!
It's about redemption.
An addicts redemption seems bigger in some way. He was forced, in the end, to stand and be accountable or betray someone he cared about.
The movie essentially had a drunk do something so incredible that when put up against the fact he was a drunk it somehow negated what it was he did. Even though it was proven no one else could accomplish that very same thing.
Drunks... Drinkers... Alcoholics... Somehow get held to a different standard. Sometimes a lesser standard and sometimes a greater standard. Depends on who's eye it's through.
My eye sees drunk people all over the place. I too decide who will pass muster and who won't.
Sometimes I don't feel redeemable. But I am.
Sometimes I don't feel lovable. But I am.
All in all. I want to do something every day that is not necessarily unique. Not necessarily extraordinary.
It's simply to be sober.
That's the standard I must hold myself to.
However I get there, I get there.
And I am sure that with each passing day sober, "alcoholic" becomes less a descriptor of who I am.
But the character of sober people will always be held in high esteem by me. I understand the strength and dedication to ones self it requires.
I know the hope we all have deep inside that without being sober would not be possible.
If ever my character is called out to stand for something greater I know that the ability to change my life will have been a defining factor for me. Something I can be proud of.
I am redeemable.
Spoiler alert!
It's about redemption.
An addicts redemption seems bigger in some way. He was forced, in the end, to stand and be accountable or betray someone he cared about.
The movie essentially had a drunk do something so incredible that when put up against the fact he was a drunk it somehow negated what it was he did. Even though it was proven no one else could accomplish that very same thing.
Drunks... Drinkers... Alcoholics... Somehow get held to a different standard. Sometimes a lesser standard and sometimes a greater standard. Depends on who's eye it's through.
My eye sees drunk people all over the place. I too decide who will pass muster and who won't.
Sometimes I don't feel redeemable. But I am.
Sometimes I don't feel lovable. But I am.
All in all. I want to do something every day that is not necessarily unique. Not necessarily extraordinary.
It's simply to be sober.
That's the standard I must hold myself to.
However I get there, I get there.
And I am sure that with each passing day sober, "alcoholic" becomes less a descriptor of who I am.
But the character of sober people will always be held in high esteem by me. I understand the strength and dedication to ones self it requires.
I know the hope we all have deep inside that without being sober would not be possible.
If ever my character is called out to stand for something greater I know that the ability to change my life will have been a defining factor for me. Something I can be proud of.
I am redeemable.
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There is a story in the 4th edition of the big book of AA about a pilot that lost his pilot license for showing up to fly with alcohol in his system, went to AA, sobered up, worked the steps, etc. He eventually got his license back. No heroic plane landings though, just a heroic person landing on his feet after having alcoholism knock them out from under him.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MD
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I think that pilot has a speaker tape on xa-speakers.org
His flying drunk was plastered all over the newspaper the next morning. What a way to begin a journey to sobriety!
Sorry, I can't recall his name...
We are all worthy humans.
Love & hugs,
His flying drunk was plastered all over the newspaper the next morning. What a way to begin a journey to sobriety!
Sorry, I can't recall his name...
We are all worthy humans.
Love & hugs,
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