Change

Change:    To become something different.

Man, is that a great definition.  Simple, powerful, unambiguous.  You were one thing and now you're something else.

I have never liked to hear the oft-repeated platitude that "alcoholics hate change."  Change makes me uncomfortable a lot of the time.  Change frightens me.  It's intimidating but I've spent a big part of life embracing change, going out to find it and see what the hell happens.  Life is about experiences, not things.  Spend your time and money and energy on doing things, not buying things, having things.

An alcoholic is an individual who furnishes the rut he's stuck in.