Arrested and rehab.

calcaitsmom
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:54:09 +0000

“Also, I wasn’t addicted, just part of the punishment I get for saving a friends life.”

As a recovering alcoholic, I have spent enough years in AA rooms to tell you this with all certainty - the likelihood that your application will be reviewed by a few of us is a sure bet. Trust me, we are more abundant than you think as we are the cop living next door, your kid’s teacher, the attorney you pay to handle your estate planning, and the college admissions counselor making decisions. No doubt, there are even some of us posting on this site. That’s why I am not going to pass judgment on you. But, I can tell you that a commitment to “own” one’s actions is of utmost importance to us. If you make any kind of comments such as the one I quoted above, you will raise a huge red flag indicating an unwillingness to accept responsibility for your actions and a lack of maturity that would most likely cause you to make more bad judgments in the future. Let’s be frank, your punishment wasn’t for “saving a life” (when’s the last time you saw someone get jail time for performing the Heimlich, or pulling someone out of a burning building?). Your punishment was for getting busted snorting/smoking/selling or just plain 'ol being in the company of a very illegal drug. Best just to be forthcoming with the truth, accept responsibility, and be sincere about what the experience taught you. As a footnote, if your not truly humbled, don’t bother to feign it since you can’t BS the master BS’ers as we have phony radar like you wouldn’t believe! Good luck. I am one of many, alcoholic or not, who truly see second chances as something we all need eventually!