It always amazes me (or at least it does since getting sober) that people who are depressed drink to alleviate their depression. When I went through treatment I learned that alcohol IS a depressant! Hello? Isn't that kinda like pouring gasoline on a fire? So it's starts or continues a vicious cycle (or is that cyclone?) ripping through a drinking person's life.

In sobreity, my feelings are up and down and I've learned that that is the normal flow of life and human emotion. It feels SO good to be a part of the human race again - even those days when it feels like a rat race at the end of the day, like right now, I'm tired but know I put in a good hard day of work and feel pretty darned good about all I accomplished.

PS. Richard, don't feel guilty about Thursday's - it's one of my guilty pleasures where I can pop in and have some fun.