Soberman
I’ve always kept an open mind to hearing what others have to say about living a life of sobriety. If I don’t particularly care for someone as an individual, my personal experience has always been that I learn more from those I can’t stand than my closest friends. However, there is always one in the group who wanders away from the herd to knit their “recovery cape” to save us from ourselves. Without any guidance from a sponsor, these mentally ill self-gratifiers decide early into their new lives that they must lead us all to freedom. They talk faster than a speeding bullet and think they are more powerful than a locomotive. As they race to the kitchen to credit themselves for making the coffee, they return with Big Book in hand as Soberman!
Always early to a meeting to scope out the room, Soberman spares no time to begin his new career of saving the inferior. Similar to the game “Life,” Soberman races around the game board putting as many bent pegs into his car as humanly possible. He knows no equal to his grandiose personality with arms so long they rise higher than cathedral ceilings. With one deep breath, he vibrates any meeting he graces with his incredible strength to crush every eardrum in a single room. Then, after the meeting is over, he’s up, up and away; soaring high above the local ghettos and bars looking for more victims to add to his already enormous collection of the lost.
Nevertheless, with any real hero’s tale, there is always a battle that eventually brings him to his knees. It’s a happy day for anyone who is not him when this occurs. For many who quickly evolve into Soberman, publicly getting caught single-handed with a laundry list of shortcomings to silence their outrageous personality becomes the perfect dose of Kryptonite that eventually saves their life. If they can beat the odds and humble themselves to remove their cape and hear their own words they might just stand a chance to live above ground. If a moment of clarity comes over their defected character that made them Soberman to begin with, the outcome of their story will be that of a real hero who uses courage, honor and dignity against our battles in the rooms of our international fellowship to be anything less than perfect
