kudzu

Sorry that I don't meet your criteria for what an alcoholic is supposed to sound like. I could attempt to prove to you the extent of my 15+ years of alcoholism, but I don't feel like it today.

Either way, commercial-like or not, my message was sincere. It's not so reprehensible if I choose to weigh my words carefully, in the attempt to create a well-crafted message. I always appreciate it when people do that for me.

Anyway, I really do find kudzu to be helpful, in fact INSTRUMENTAL, in maintaining my sobriety. Lately I've been testing the kudzu usage by exposing myself to trigger events -- things that make me want to drink -- and the kudzu has successfully enabled me to resist the urge. This all has brought joy and self-confidence into my life. It means that I can feel closer and less-different than all of those non-alcoholics out there. For all of my adult life, I've avoided social interactions, parties, etc. just because most people always have booze around. Now I can go to parties and not have to worry about being tempted. It means that maybe I could start having a life again. Who know, maybe I'll even be able to make some non-alcoholic friends and actualy KEEP them as friends, without the booze getting in the way, like it always has done. What's so terrible about that?

I think that this kind of message (about the kudzu) is completely appropriate for an AA forum. Who knows what kind of good things might happen if people at AA meetings started to talk about kudzu, and encourage it's use? That embarassing 25% success rate (for the AA 12 step process) might climb a lot higher. That wouldn't be so bad, would it? Don't knock it before you try it.

Sometimes the cures and remedies to terrible problems don't have to be majorly complicated. That's why we're all here at curezone anyway: in order to find the non-conventional means to cure the problems that life throws our way, because the conventional ways didn't work.

Hope this doesn't sound too much like a commercial. God bless you all.



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