Tyrant

 Would you put up with a demanding tyrant?  No, you say.  Only an insane person or codependent person would do that.  Well, alcoholics who are drinking, or addicts who are drugging, are putting up with a demanding tyrant.  Now you know something about the insanity.  The tyrant, in one case is alcohol.  At some point, it demands the alcoholic drink.  It even provides a craving to respond to this tyrant.  So if you run across an alcoholic in recovery don’t ask, “Why do you still go to those meetings?”  They go because it gives them hope, which is a path of freedom from the tyrant.  Encourage them.  Hope needs a daily feeding and watering, but not with booze.