Not An Easy Choice My Ass

"To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternative to face.  If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago.  But our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly."

I've always loved the mental construct of what happens when you tell an new person that they have two choices: To continue drinking and using, living a painful and remorseful life, before ending up  in an institution or a grave, or accepting a spiritual solution to the alcoholic problem, and then watching the individual struggle to make a decision.  "Uh, can I get back to you on that?  The answer isn't clear at the moment."   Jeeee-zus H. Christ, are you kidding me?