THE LUCKIEST PERSON I KNOW Today is a day filled with joy and with tears. Today's the beginning and end. It's the single most wonderful day of my life - It's the day that I lost my best friend. That friend in the glass or the bottle or can - The one I took with me each day. The one that looked harmless enough from afar - But whittled my life away. My friend wasn't mean or obnoxious or rough - (Not most of the time anyhow). My friend had that silent but dangerous touch - The one I can see clearly now. Why all the sadness? Good riddance you say! Sounds like a friend you could lose. But what will I do with myself from here on? The love of my life was my booze. Will I be all alone? Will I have no more friends? Will I cry at the end of each day? Or will I instead find a new way to live? A way that will come through AA. I've known for a while that the path I've been on was a time bomb awaiting to blow. But I hadn't a clue my salvation was just down the road I was fixin' to go. When I walked through these doors and saw what was inside - just a glimpse of my life to be... I knew from then on I could never turn back - for God was inside of me. I felt I'd come home to a place in my heart - but a place I had never known. It's because of the fellowship inside these walls that I'll never again be alone. Just the tip of the iceberg is what I have touched. There's so much now to do and to see. Thank God I've been given a second chance - A life of sobriety. I got here before it was too late for me. I got here albeit slow. I got here in time to save my life. I'm the luckiest person I know. Lisa W. - 1/10/98 - Day 9