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250 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2022
- 鈥淚f I drop my game, my Chandler, and show you who I really am, you might notice me, but worse, you might notice me and leave me. And I can鈥檛 have that. I won鈥檛 survive that.鈥�
- 鈥淚 was so often just a tourist in sobriety.鈥�
- 鈥淔or a long time, I tried to find just about anything and anybody to blame for the mess I kept finding myself in.鈥�
- 鈥淵ou can consider what you鈥檙e about to read to be a message from the beyond, my beyond.鈥�
鈥淚t is very odd to live in a world where if you died, it would shock people but surprise no one.鈥�
鈥淚 think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.鈥�
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鈥淎ddiction is like the Joker. It just wants to see the whole world burn.鈥�![]()
鈥淏ut addiction wakes up before you do, and it wants you alone. Alcoholism will win every time. As soon as you raise your hand and say, 鈥淚鈥檓 having a problem,鈥� alcohol sneers, You鈥檙e gonna say something about it? Fine, I鈥檒l go away for a while. But I鈥檒l be back. It never goes away for good.鈥�
鈥淵ou can鈥檛 give away something you do not have. And most of the time I have these nagging thoughts: I鈥檓 not enough, I don鈥檛 matter, I am too needy. These thoughts make me uncomfortable. I need love, but I don鈥檛 trust it. If I drop my game, my Chandler, and show you who I really am, you might notice me, but worse, you might notice me and leave me. And I can鈥檛 have that. I won鈥檛 survive that. Not anymore. It will turn me into a speck of dust and annihilate me.鈥�
鈥淚 remember thinking, Man, no one taught me the rules of life. I was a complete mess of a person鈥攕elfish and narcissistic. Everything had to be about me, and I matched that with a really handy inferiority complex, an almost fatal combo. I was all about myself from the time I was ten years old, from that moment when I looked around and said, It鈥檚 every man for himself. I had to be so focused on me just to keep myself together.
But AA will teach you this is no way to live.鈥�
鈥淚 don鈥檛 believe in half-assing things anymore. The path of least resistance is boring, and scars are interesting鈥攖hey tell an honest story, and they are proof that a battle was fought, and in my case, hard-won.
I have many scars now.鈥�![]()