When Isolation is the Cure & the Source of our Pain & Dysfunction.

Warning: salty language ahead.

Charles Swindoll said, “I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”

I don’t really know who Chuck is, but I’ve always liked this particular quote, and I’ve thought about it a lot in the past four weeks.

Maybe God or the Universe is serving up a particularly unsavory plate of 10 percent to check us on our 90 percent? Will we sew seeds for the future, or will we say, “fuck it,” and eat the forbidden fruit (there I go getting all Biblical)?

Seriously, I worry about this quite a bit. I am in the alcoholism recovery field, and I can’t stop worrying about the millions of people (no exaggeration) who are drinking their way through the pandemic. I’ve been there, too. That’s what I did during the aftermath of 9/11, and I’m filled with regret and shame about it still today.

I get what millions are thinking: Let’s see…I can try to figure out a future with no clear path to income for which I have no strategy and no ideas-or I can open this bottle of wine and deal with it all tomorrow.

It’s not really even a hard choice, and that’s why I’m going to be awfully busy…