Why Am I So Happy?

This is a

Re-Post
of
It Takes Up All Your Precious Time!

from

August 15, 2015.

I recently gave a

Lyft

ride to an old friend who I have not seen in seven years.

Because five of those years he spent in jail.

He claims he is sober now

and is going to stay that way.

I told him how happy I am right now in my life

and the reasons for it.

I thought bringing back this

Post

would help explain where I am at.

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First,
I would like that my kids,
other family members,
not read this
Post. 
Because,
I do not feel like being judged for what I am about to reveal here today.

Second,
I am not writing this
Post,
because I feel
Regret
for the things that I have done in my life.

On the contrary,
I taught myself a long time ago,
not to regret the decisions I have made over the years,
because they are a part of my life
and they make me who I am.

Everybody makes mistakes in life.
If you learn from them
and grow as a person,
you become a better individual because of them.
With that said,
I have learned that doing drugs,
will use up a lot of time in your life.
Time,
that you can be putting to better use.
Now,
don't let your imagination go wild,
thinking I'm addicted to heroin
or something like that.
I'm not.

I have never tried it
and I plan on never trying it.
I am talking about any addictive drug like,
Coffee,
Cigarettes,
Alcohol,
Pot,
Speed,
Acid,
Downers,
Meth,
and so on.

I am going to be talking about alcohol,
because that is the most widely used drug that I know of.

This lesson can be associated with any drug though.
I was mainly a pot head
and alcoholic.

Drinking alcohol,
took up so much of my time,
out of my day,
that I had little time for anything else.
Meaning I had little time for
Relationships,
Family,
and
Friends.

Think about it.

The
First
thing that takes time away from your life when you are drinking,
is finding the money to buy it.
So you either have to earn some money,
borrow some money,
or steal some money.

Second,
once you have the money,
you have to travel to whatever location there is to purchase the Alcohol.
Liquor store,
grocery store,
gas station,
and so on.

Third,
you have to drink the alcohol.
With most people,
that involves getting drunk,
instead of just drinking socially.

Fourth,
you have to sleep it off.

Fifth,
you have to recover from whatever level of buzz you achieved the day or night before.
Meaning,
some people wake up with hangovers they have to deal with,
or others are so exhausted they can't get out of bed.

Sixth,
which is a whole category of it's own,
but must be mentioned here,
you have to pay retribution for any mistakes you made while drinking the alcohol.

Like court fines and jail time!
The friends you hurt.
The ruined relationships.
The Family who wants to disown you.

And if that isn't hard enough,
try rapping your drug use around going to school
or working at a job.
Then,
you even have less time to drink your alcohol.
Which seems to have the effect of convincing some people that they have to hurry up
and get wasted because they don't have,
"Enough time to get buzzed!"
Some of you,

will have to pay your own bills,
buy your own food,
and pay your own rent.
Leaving less money for alcohol,

and less time to get buzzed.
I'm not going to sit here
and say I could have been a great musician
or a great writer if I didn't drink alcohol.

I'm saying I could have been a lot better at these things,
if I used the time I spent on drinking to get drunk,
on perfecting those crafts I enjoy.

I still play guitar
and I still write short stories.
Check out some of my writings under the heading,
"Short Stories & Flash Fiction."

But,
I do them for my own enjoyment now.
I know I could have been better at them if I had practiced more
and took lessons from a good guitar player
or went back to school to learn how to become a better writer.
No regrets though.

Because I have had one
Hell
of a life
and plan on having a lot more of it.

Alcohol made me feel old at the age 24,
and lazy where I thought,
"Is this as good as it gets?"
I made about a million dollars from age of 16 to 31 years old.

Recovered from trying to drink myself to death
and made about two million dollars from age 36 to 53 years old.
I raised seven wonderful children during that second period of my life
and I needed every penny to do it.

Being sober,
I find that I am happier now with my life since I was a child.

I'm happy because of my kids.
Even though I bore them,
I love watching them grow up,
having children of their own,
and learning about life in their own way.
See,
I told you I have one
Hell
of a life.
So,
if you think you still want to party,
learn a lesson the Greeks always say,

This is,
After All That,
I Wouldn't Change A Thing In My Life,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.”
- David Gerrold, -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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