The Bus

 As someone said, "If you get on a bus and stay on it you will eventually get to its final destination."  Chronic alcoholism is the final destination, terminal in health and life, for alcoholics who keep on drinking.  Some on the way will say, "I am not that bad."  "I can get off whenever I want."  Hopefully, you will get off before the end.  The problem with most potential or practicing alcoholics is they do not know they are on the bus.  Until they do.  And then maybe they cannot get off.  You hear the words, "Blind drunk."  It means you are on the bus but cannot see it.  You have closed your eyes to the darkening scenery.  Recovery is a matter of getting off the bus and going toward a new destination...with others.