Back to work today. I didn't want to be there for the first couple of trips but got into the swing of things after awhile. You could have fired a cannon ball down Broadway for the first few hours without hitting a soul along the way. Now that doesn't happen often on one of the busiest streets in Vancouver.
I was thinking about my sisters a lot today. Both of them gone early in their lives. Both as a result of the affects of drugs. I always seem to think of the two of them around Christmas time probably because my sister Sharon's birthday fell on Dec. 10th. I don't even know where she might be buried or the exact nature of her death. all I know is that the last place she lived was in Florida under the name Sherry Boney. Treena on the other hand died 3 months after my mothers death in Sept. 2009. She was 40 years old and overdosed.
Can you see what alcoholism can do to a family? It decimated ours for sure. Only myself and 2 younger brothers left from a family of 7 including Mum and Dad, both gone.
I think about this kind of stuff a lot. I wonder sometimes why I was one of the lucky ones. When I left home at 17 years old, I promised myself I would never drink like my father did and yet when the opportunity came that's exactly what I began to do. Drink to oblivion. I dabbled with drugs as well when my first marriage crashed and burned. I was a lucky one. I quit both drinking and drugs in Oct 1978 thanks to the help of A.A. and how stayed clean and sober ever since. I am a lucky one.
Anyway, it was a good day today and I'm actually a little glad to get the holiday excesses out of the way and back to regular routine.
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