Yes You Can!
Barack
Obama taught us one of the most important lessons we have ever been
taught. Yes you can! He did what many thought was impossible in
this country. There were people who
would never think about voting for a black man who voted for him and openly
supported him. It was an election where
a black man ran as a man. Race was not
an issue.
I learned
a long time ago that I can. I haven’t
had a drink in 17 years. Since I quit I
have lived in a bar for six months and I tended bar twice. I do not want to drink alcohol. I do not want drugs with two exceptions,
caffeine and nicotine.
I have
helped people find the road to recovery by teaching them that they can.
There is
something all we have to learn. My
father taught me this and lived this.
“If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”
I am not
saying that you sweep your problems under the rug. You have to solve them or work around them.
Why was I
a drunk? Because I was in a marriage
that I wanted out of but because of society at the time you stayed together for
the kids. If you are in a situation that
“drives you to drink” you have two choices.
Either find a way to cope with your situation or get out of it.
The day I
left the first wife I quit getting drunk for 10 years. I still had an occasional drink. I would have a couple at a party then switch
to pop or coffee. I chose when I wanted
to drink and how I wanted to drink.
After the
second split up I ended up in the drug world.
I stared to drink too much again.
I was around crack, marijuana and alcohol all of the time. I never tried crack because I did not want
to. I tried marijuana and decided I did
not want to use it. After six months I
decided to quit drinking completely.
That was 17 years ago. I spent most
of those years in the streets and helping others learn what Barack taught
us. “Yes I Can!”
It is my
goal for the rest of my life to help lost souls find themselves. To help them regain control of
themselves.
I had
Cancer for five years. I could not
afford health insurance and lived with pain for those five years. I did not take aspirin or other pain
killers. I ignored the pain. I learned that the human mind can do almost
anything.
I finally
got the insurance and the Cancer is gone.
So is my ear, a couple of lymph nodes and something else that was in my
neck. If I was bald and had no beard I
would make the Frankenstein monster look handsome.
Doctors
say that 90 percent of the cure of cancer is from with in. People with no chance have beaten it. The
same goes for addiction.
Every day
has been a good day since
© Copyright 2008 Lee W.
Gaylord