My Daily #Meltdown: The Puddle
Welcome to My Daily #Meltdown, where I count down the days to the release of Melt with insights about my process.
I was going to show you a picture of the “real” Joey – but for some reason my phone refuses to e-mail the picture. I can’t post from my phone because it’s just too small – and so, there will be no Joey tonight. I’ll work on it!!! (Technically inept – alas.)
So I’ll tell you about the puddle instead.
In the book, Joey hears a guy at an AA meeting talk about how falling into a puddle was the thing that led him to surrender – and to stop drinking:
“Then one day he was walking to the liquor store
in the snow.
There was this humongous puddle of
slush at the
edge
of the curb and he
stopped and
stared into it.
He saw his
sorry-
ass
reflection looking back and
suddenly
he thought of
surrender.
All this time he’d fought it and
look
where it got him.
All this time he thought it was
bad
that it meant
defeat
to surrender
that there’d be
nothing
left of him
that it’d be the end.
But just like that the word
appeared in his head like someone
whispered it to him and he
fell
into the
freezing
puddle he
splattered in
on his knees
he spoke to God he
surrendered.
And that’s when he found
hope he found
faith that’s when everything
changed
when he caved
when he gave up the
burden
of trying to control what he
couldn’t
control
anyway
he felt it
lift from his shoulders and it all
changed.”
In real life, this happened to Joey. It was he who was walking to the liquor store and saw himself in a puddle.
And the person he was telling this story to? That was me.
Joey says to the guy:
“Bro
I ain’t dropping in no puddle for
noone.”
I said this to him – but with proper grammar.
Then, he really said & did this to me:
“He looks at me dead-on his
eyes they’re plowing straight into
mine.
He says,
The puddle
it’s in your
mind.”
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To clarify, I’m not an alcoholic. But I did need help that recovery – and surrender – provided.
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