The Service That Keeps Him From Being an Ideas Guy – Chris M.
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130 miles per hour. That was the speed Chris M. hit when he redlined every gear and smashed through a telephone pole and a house.
He didn't walk away from the wreckage; he sprinted seven miles an hour through a ditch and tried to hide in his own bed, hoping the sirens would fade. He describes a life lived in complete delusion, a "Groundhog's Day" of shutting down bars and waking up at 4:30 a.m. to the coin-flip of dry heaving into a toothbrush.
He was the "ideas guy," a man who talked about a life he never actually lived. After nineteen charges and the look of incomprehensible demoralization on his mother's face, he found himself back in the same counseling office he’d scoffed at five years prior. Now, sobriety is found in the inconvenience of service—picking up a man in a wheelchair—to ensure he never returns to being just an ideas guy.
He relies on a Higher Power and the grit of the 12 Steps.
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