If alcoholics ruled the world, there would be no war. Of course, there would be no peace either. If alcoholics ruled the world, in fact, there wouldn’t be much of anything at all – except of course for drinking, and except for all those lies and rationalizations that make drinking possible in the first place.
The good news, obviously, is that alcoholics don’t rule the world. And because they don’t, alcoholism isn’t – doesn’t have to be – the end of the story.
If alcoholics ruled the world, there would be no such thing as alcohol rehab. But they don’t, and there is.
The nature of the alcoholic mind is such that alcohol addicts cannot functionally conceive of sobriety. If you’ve experienced alcoholism yourself, you know how it is: The thought of getting sober feels like an impossibly distant dream, the sort of lark that you can think about only in the abstract, without ascribing to it any sort of meaningful reality.
If alcoholics ruled the world, recovery would never progress beyond that point. But they don’t. And it does.
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