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WHY I wrote my book
In my book I say that the most important question you can ask yourself is WHY? Why did I write about alcohol recovery? Why didn’t I write it about dogs?
I was referring to why we drink alcohol. It is my belief that if we can find out why, really dig down deep to the reason, we can stop by finding another way to satisfy that reason or at the very least put a new construct on it.
Was I lucky that doing this led to my stopping a drink habit that could possibly have killed me? I do not think so. I think that in finding the real reason and in upgrading my life in every other way I could, I found my way out.
Why? I ask myself, as my book is published, why did I write my book?
The answer is quite simple: I was suffering, I stopped because I worked out how to stop, and I am no longer drinking. My life is so immeasurably better than it was that I wanted to help other people to experience the same happiness and freedom as I now do.
Someone said to me that we share our experiences so that maybe WE CAN SAVE A LIFE.
Alcoholism is so serious, and people like to forget that withdrawals can kill, but alcohol can kill in other ways, not just the soul but people, other people can be killed by drunk drivers or accidents while drunk, or liver failure, or cancer. The list is long.
If this can save one life, yours or anyone else’s, then all my own suffering and the help of all those who helped me, will have been worth it.
Actually I have written a book about dogs but this one was different. I wrote this because I wanted to stop others hurting as much as I did. That is why. Hope it helps.
