"Not done anything as bad" hummmmmm, let me see I ONLY drove drunk once and it was pretty bad.
I said I would never drive drunk and that morning I made the decision to drive BECAUSE I was drunk and thought "I'll get away with it - look at all those other people who did it for years without getting caught".
So I went off careering down a very dangerous, busy, country road. Guess what? I hit an oncoming car because my steering was off. Guess what number 2?I just about managed to swerve so hard my car rolled onto it's roof, in order to minimise the impact. Guess what?There was a family including 2 children in the other car. How lucky was I not to kill any of them, not to mention myself.
My reaction?
Complete and utter shame. After being charged by the police I hid in my partners house, in the bedroom and wouldn't speak to anyone and in fact couldn't look anyone in the eye after that. Took me a long time to deal with it as I knew exactly how serious it had all been.
It took another 2 years for me to stop drinking but in that time even though I vowed I'd never do it again I still could not guarantee I would not do it in black out, as no-one with a drink problem can do. I didn't do it a 2nd time but now is the only time I can ever be sure I won't do it again - well not within the confines of this sober run.
So that's my lot on drink driving.
Oh and I don't dispute God, he's just another form of what I call my own belief system - in that there is something whether it be a deity, being or simple randomness that helps us through life.
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