Sharing and Caring - ESH

[MajestyJo]

After a NA meeting, I walked uptown with some members and a guy from the eastern provinces asked how old I was. He told me that you must have found the Fountain of Youth. I said, `No I am just well preserved in alcohol.`

I didn't think I was going to live to be 40 because that was the age my mother passed away. She didn't drink or smoke. Her problem was food. Her food addiction killed her. She used food to deal with my father's alcoholism and life in general. My father died at the age of 66 from his disease.

I am certainly living overtime. For today I am grateful I made it to old age although I have gone kicking and fighting all the way.

Staying clean and sober gave me back my life.

A friend sent me the following link. It scares me, I'm not sure I want to live for another 33 years. Thirty-three wasn't a good year for me, that is the age I got married for the second time.

My query said I was going to live for another 8 years. I will be 79 years old. Wouldn`t want to put things on hold, waiting for things to happen and the moments to pass away!

http://www.deathclock.com/