This is not the Magic Kingdom

This morning the speaker was recounting what her partner said this morning. "You people are on a Disney ride! You go into this program and all of a sudden you have jobs, and lives, and things beyond your wildest dreams." And the speaker said, I quote, "Girl, this ain't the Magic Kingdom."

It's not all a fun ride. The whole quitting drinking thing takes a lot of self-control and patience, as well as a reliance on something other than you to help you along. That's a mighty tall order. "What an order! I can't go through with it." But it is the easier way. Easier than drinking yourself out of life. Easier than dying slowly, or quickly, in a gutter, friendless and lonely.

So yeah, like a roller coaster, there are ups and downs. We may function better now without alcohol in our systems, but we are still human and have our down times, too. We're not perfect. No one is. But we hang in there, and instead of gripping to the bars, we let go and take the ride as it comes.