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My parents were both alcoholics. My dad kicked the habit about ten years before his death and my mother let it kill her. I was well on the way. Booze was a feature of every family gathering. As a kid I drank like a fish. By the time I went to college the other kids there were amazed at my ability to hold my liquor. I went in to the military and found a lot of people there that liked to drink, it is a part of being a submariner. When you "drink" your dolphins it is in a large glass of various kinds of hard liquor.

I nearly ran someone off the road one night because I was drunk and driving. I decided I would never drink and drive again. I went to a party one night but because I would be driving home I didn't drink. When I saw how stupid the people there were acting because they were drinking I decided I would never drink again. I haven't.

It is not a disease, it is a decision. I have a brother who still makes the decision to drink every day. I don't have to make the decision because a long time ago I made the decision to NEVER do it again.

Eating and getting obese is a decision. Some give a variety of excuses for doing it, many call it a disease. It is a decision. Some people like sex so much that they will disobey law and custom and rape little children. It is not a disease, it is a decision.

We can make excuses for all of the ills of society and find (make up) a variety of diseases but it is simply decisions.

Some decisions can be very difficult. I tried to break my 3 pack a day cigarette habit several times before I was successful. I could not do it until I decided I would.

Go out and make some good decisions.