My father used to tell me that he was a beer drinker. I’d tell him I was a beer drinker too, and he’d respond, “and I’m a beer drinker too”. I thought maybe he was wrong. I was wrong. He was right. But it wasn’t until I was in college that I actually learned about the three tiers of self-awareness.

It was when I was in college that I realized that I was pretty much always drunk. I never really had a plan, I always knew when I was going to drink, and I would come home and drink until I couldnt. I thought I had a good hangover recovery system, but I was wrong. I was always drunk. I am a professional beer drinker now.

The only thing I did was I would go to the liquor store and buy a bottle of Jack Daniels, or Bock, or something and drink until I got to the point where I had no more energy to drink. I was definitely an alcoholic.

Yeah. I just had to get it out. I had a couple of bottles of wine, I got drunk and I got scared. I had no real idea what I was doing. I didn’t really drink for a long time, but when I did, I didn’t even really know what I was doing. I just drank until I could not drink anymore.

I’m not sure when I stopped drinking completely; I’d probably be a bit more specific about that than I am about my alcohol consumption. But I’ve always been an alcoholic, and I’ve always had a strong drinking problem. I have a strong alcoholism problem. And I’ve never had a drinking problem that was in a completely different area than I had a problem drinking. I’ve always had a strong alcoholism problem.

Drinking is just part of your life, it can be good or bad. Alcohol is a drug, but a drug that is a part of your life. That has some parallels with the word, addiction.

So when I say Ive never had a drinking problem that was in a completely different area than I had a problem drinking, it should be obvious that I mean that I could not have one if I had one. My problem was that I had to put down more alcohol to drink less. But there is a difference between having to drink to feel better and having to drink to not feel better.

So I’m not exactly going out on a limb here, but I’m going to pretend to be drunk, so you don’t think I’m going to make a big deal about it. But the point is that there is a difference. The thing that you should always do before you drink, is find something else to do. If you can’t, then you’re not going to get drunk.

I used to be a lot more drinker. I can still remember the first time I hit that alcohol threshold and I had to go sit and think, and think, and think about my life. My life has been filled with too much drinking and too many things that I shouldnt have been doing. But that time is over. Drinking is no longer a coping device. And the point is that when you drink to the point where it becomes a problem you should have a plan for it.

Just when you think you have it figured out, something else comes to mind. Drinking is a problem because you have to stay busy so you can drink, but when you drink too much, that can become a problem too. If you can’t drink enough to stay sober, then you have to stay busy so you can stay drunk. And that’s what Alcoholics Anonymous is all about.