The Long Climb

I KNOW THAT everyone has, at one time or another, had a desire to do something he has never done or to be someone he isn't. I had this desire in the past, and I used alcohol to make me feel as though I was someone I really wasn't or could do something I really couldn't do. Yes, I was the "great pretender," and I thought that my life really was what I wanted it to be. Only now do I finally realize that I lived in a self-made nightmare for many years. When I was found by the AA people, I was offered hope where there had been no hope. I was given a chance for a new life.