Topic: As Bill Sees it - Is happiness the goal?
Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Alcohol truly filled that God-sized soul, that love, the void that I was feeling. And then I chased it into the gates of insanity and death. For about the last five years of my drinking, I would drink as much as I could. My body would be drunk, but my mind's still racing. It just came off of suicide that from drinking, a drink would fix this. There's a spiritual malady underneath it that I was drinking. The reason I was drinking it, because I was maladjusted to life,. couldn't feel okay inside. "My entire life was here in happiness," he says. 'I never really looked at this way before'
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