Alcoholics Anonymous

Before television, theatre or sport when bored open a bottle or pop a cork.

Mankind has always found himself in need of a drink be it for recreational or medicinal use and though there are no records to confirm the origin of alcohol (probably because they who found it got drunk and forgot to write anything down) the first written account that can be verified was 6000 years ago.  Alcohol, before becoming a popular sport was used for worship and to honour the gods of old. Alcohol is still used today in some cultures for religious purposes but this has become a mere object of tradition. Commercialism and the public media promote drinking with such vigour that you cannot help yourself but to join in for a brew.  Advertisements sell false dreams of happiness in a bottle of friendship that stand the taste of time and status obtainable only by those who drink red’ Slogans like these are meant to convince you that alcohol makes you a stronger, better more fulfilled person when in actuality it makes you a fool. How many times have you heard or said these exact words “I’m never going to drink again” contemplating one of the worst hangovers you ever had. A virtue short lived come Friday night! There is a saying “without imagination you are dead” and alcohol has a grip on human imagination having a good time takes no real creativeness all you need are a few friends (people serving the single purpose of being your drinking buddies) and as much alcohol as possible there you have it a good time without putting any effort into activities or ideas.

The naked promises of beauty in a bottle and held atop.

Drinking lowers ambition and heightens sexual desire a sure fire way of regretting tomorrow. The problem lies not with desire nor does it lie with sex or love or any physical or emotional attraction or act upon such attraction in any way the problem lies with the measure of how these feelings are induced. My attack is aimed at the profit hungry monkeys that coin from inability calls it a farce and shifts the blame back on the consumer leaving him poorer and more determined to win the next round of a fixed game. 

Winded he stands alone and scorned and by his own his loss his last drop.

Blind neglect forces a man down until he’s pride withers and calls mercy. The word alcoholism was founded in 1848 and is notably used to describe a disease.  Alcoholism is a disease, it might sound like a horrible infection but to those who live with the label unwilling to do anything about it is a comfort word to describe circumstances he/she can’t control and cannot change.  Self help books and alcoholics anonymous groups preach that the first step to recovery is admittance a lie widely believed to be correct but it’s a half truth admitting one is an alcoholic makes no difference to the habit of drinking and one might continue admitting to the word for as long as he/she is still live without ever putting the bottle down. Admit not to a word accept failure and recover forthwith.

His name not forgotten Rorke