Before I go to bed, I stick a blob on my forehead, one on each cheek, a smidgen on the nose, and a dab beneath my lip.
Then I rub.
I'm 43.
In the morning, I look old. As the day wears on, my wrinkles fall away like the wearing of a creased t-shirt.
There was no face cream when I was young. Had the word got out, people would have called me gay or a girl. There wasn't a single openly gay person in our village. To be gay was the antonym of being a man.
And you had to be a man.
There was...
Before I go to bed, I stick a blob on my forehead, one on each cheek, a smidgen on the nose, and a dab beneath my lip.
Then I rub.
I'm 43.
In the morning, I look old. As the day wears on, my wrinkles fall away like the wearing of a creased t-shirt.
There was no face cream when I was young. Had the word got out, people would have called me gay or a girl. There wasn't a single openly gay person in our village. To be gay was the antonym of being a man.
And you had to be a man.
There was no face cream.
People like us didn't wear face cream.
But we did drink alcohol.
The Truth About Alcohol
We Are Not Alcoholics And Refuse to be Anonymous
If you want to listen to more musings on the correlation between refusing to wear face cream, and drinking alcohol, then fortunately for you that's what I bang on about in today's AA Podcast episode.
The January Taster
It's time to stop doing what everyone else is doing. Yes, it made sense when we were younger. It made us likeable. It gave us access to the right tribe. But we're not children anymore. It's time to grow up and embrace our autonomy.
Everyone you know drinks alcohol.
Nobody you know would pay for an experience to help them stop.
It's time to buck the trend.
It's time to do what's right.
The January Taster starts on, yes you've guessed it, January 1st, and we would love to have you join everyone else brave enough to do something different: https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/p/TTAA%20Taster
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