Solitude--a New Joy

"I'M LONELY--I'm lonely!" is the cry of alcoholics all over the face of the earth--in a lonely room, in a crowded bar, in the heart of a family gathering, walking down the street in the midst of hundreds of people. Then, in contradiction, people would get on our nerves and we would go off by ourselves to "get away from it all," but this didn't work either, for we could not endure for long the burden of our own dark thoughts. There is a place for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, but no place--no place for me.