“I don’t know when or where it happened, but somewhere I crossed the line. The fun and freedom that alcohol had brought me in my early drinking was suddenly gone. I kept trying to find it. Eventually, I just started to adapt my life to my drinking - it seemed like my only choice, at the time.”
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
— Plato, The Republic
He had lost everything worthwhile in life and was only living, one might say, to drink. He frankly admitted and believed that for him there was no hope.
— Page xxxi Alcoholics Anonymous
