What It Used To Be Like!

Why We Drink!

(or Drug)

Whenever we drink alcohol, we are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

Whenever we drink alcohol, we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

Whenever we drink alcohol, we will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

Whenever we drink alcohol, no matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

Whenever we drink alcohol, that feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

Whenever we drink alcohol, we will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows (especially the ones of the opposite sex).

Whenever we drink alcohol, self-seeking will slip away.

Whenever we drink alcohol, our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

Whenever we drink alcohol, fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.

Whenever we drink alcohol, we will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.

Whenever we drink alcohol, we will suddenly realize that alcohol is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Paraphased from The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, pgs. 83-84

But in reality what we were really looking for, all along, was what happens when we finally stop drinking!