"I'm Not Different" from the Daily Reflections (quoted on DG's post) was the topic today. So funny it seems most everyone there felt they were different, and isolated came up as a description. I know it was true for me.
I wonder if this is mostly alcoholics that feel this way, or does the rest of the "normal" population as well?
There was a lot of discussion on how alcoholics gravitate to other alcoholics - even now when we're no longer drinking (as in AA I guess). It did remind me of an old friend I reconnected with recently (on the internet - though we are all planning a reunion in the spring). He was an old drinking buddy, has been sober for 25 years. The one thing we had in common was drinking, usually beer and lots of it. There was lots of other partying going on in this group of people, but me and him were the alcoholics. Alcohol was always my only and his main love.
What's weird is it's just like yesterday, like a conversation that picks right up where it left of. His now partner (who I also knew separately) and I don't have this same bond. I don't know if it's the alcohol thing, but I really wonder. Or are we just a certain type of people, or just seek out what's familiar?
On chat the other night the topic kept going back to our old drinking days and stuff from back then. Why we can remember every cheap brand of wine we drank in our younger days. The detail of it. That is what is really weird. Or is it just the fact that alcohol was so important to us, that it was a part of nearly every aspect of our lives?
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