Once again, I was watching a Clint Eastwood movie about Dirty Harry. All through the movie he kept repeating, “A man’s got to know his limitations”.
What are my limitations? I know one; alcohol. My limitations can be described as my primary purpose to stay sober.
Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. I was thinking about the story in the BB, about the man, who stopped drinking for 25 years so that he could achieve success in business. And he did and retired well off. Then he picked up a drink again and found he couldn’t stop. He was dead in four years from drinking. He didn’t realize that all the while he was dry his alcoholism was progressing, just as if he had been drinking all along. He had never heard, once an alcoholic always an alcoholic. His limitations.
I knew a man, who had about 20 years sober, who forgot his limitations. He picked up a drink again. Fortunately he realized his limitations and is now sober again. Like I said; fortunate. I pray I remember this and not follow his example.
Anyway, after listening to Dirty Harry about limitations I had to stop and think how this applied to my life. It does. It’s a reminder to me to continue to work this program and to stay sober. I’ve witnessed the devastation the insanity of alcohol can wreak on someone like me. I never want to go there and I won’t, if I stick with this program and depend on my higher power; the group and the God of my understanding.