I'm attending a wedding this afternoon (cinco de mayo themed...) with the expectation, and anticipation, of encountering drunkenness. After more than a quarter century of sobriety,  I enjoy a harmless reminder of why I still 'trudge the road of happy destiny'.  Getting clean in the 80's meant staying away from weddings. "Non-addictive" cocaine (my drug of choice) was ubiquitous and ruining every single one of these festivities. Bill W. and the first 100 hadn't tangled with Bolivian marching powder so their tenet stating, and I'm paraphrasing, we can go where alcohol is served as long as there is a legitimate reason and we're in fit spiritual condition, didn't apply. I hedged my bets and steered clear. Now I'm the last to notice when that activity is going down and always confused by it, like, 'Really? People still do that shit? Huh.'.
I made my living as a musician in early recovery and people would often ask, 'How can you work around all that booze?' I'd reply, 'As long as it's alcohol and not cocaine coming out of those taps, I'm fine.' The truth is, it's not the substance I have a problem with, it's the people. As soon as a fellow human ingests alcohol and has that personality shift, I'm out. It goes back to my training as a child with an alcoholic mom. Pure survival. Ironically, I cannot discern the heavy drinker from the alkie. I might be able to if I was around them 24/7 (CLM's Recovery Coach plug!) but in the moment, after several cocktails when the chest puffs out or the crying in the bathroom begins, they look pretty much the same. As far as today goes I prayed and meditated this morning, like always, and part of that prayer is to be of service. I have no idea how big a wedding party it is but the odds are good that I'll be bringing a newcomer to a meeting come monday night.

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