The Reverse Promises
If we are NOT painstaking
about this phase of our development, we will be drunk
before we leave the parking lot.
We are going to know a
new pain and a new misery.
We will regret our deeds and repeat them over and over.
We will comprehend the word
chaos and we will know calamity.
No matter how far down the road
we stagger, we will still wonder where we are going.
That feeling of uselessness
and self-pity will intensify.
We will lose interesting things and
gain relations with strange fellows.
Self-seeking will be constant.
Our whole attitude will be on the lookout for the cops.
Fear of people and economic
insecurity will leave us - homeless.
We will intuitively know
how to stay drunk with little or no money.
We will suddenly begin
to think that God does not exist.
Are these extravagant promises?
Probably not.
They are being practiced daily,
sometimes insanely, sometimes deadly.
They will continue
to happen if we keep drinking.
