Pool Party

Throughout my drinking career I always wanted to fit in. I would gravitate toward whichever group looked as if they were having the most fun and try to ingratiate myself. The fact that I drank alcoholically would inevitably lead to ugly situations and rejection. I was not easily deterred. I would act like a puppy nipping at peoples’ heels. Loneliness and isolation, which only an alcoholic can understand, seemed my destiny.