Sober

 Why get sober if you are an addict?  One good reason that I do not often hear, is sobriety allows you the chance to become yourself.  You get “saved” to become you.  Whoever you were as a active addict was not really you.  Insane people are hardly themselves.  They might have been the life of the party because they could not deal with the loneliness of avoiding the struggle to grow up into their true self.  As incomplete as I might be in this journey, I am still alive to stay on the path.  Loneliness does not mean you are a failure.  It means you are human.  Addicts don’t like being human, and add insanity to their avoidance of the struggle.  So they try and destroy even the fake self.