ALWAYS ON GUARD

After eight years of sobriety, the disease of Alcoholism still exists inside me. It is just waiting patiently for me to stop doing those daily things (the steps)that shield me from the claws of the disease. It is waiting for me to get cocky and overconfident. It is waiting me to think that I am keeping myself sober and I don’t need to do all those critical things that got me to this wonderful place.  It is waiting for me to walk away from what works and stroll down that dark alley in my brain. It is waiting for me to isolate myself. Then the disease will appear and strike. It will be me against him and I will lose.