Wish I'd been there. You can't buy that key. Can't even rob a jewelry store for it. Your simple act of accepting it is symbolic of thousands of other actions of not taking a drink or of going to a meeting, avoiding friends who use, doing whatever it took to put together another 5 clean minutes in those 18 months.

Overall it doesn't mean a whole lot and guarantees even less, but that act of their giving it to you and your accepting it from them, that symbolic act in the present moment it took place, means everything. It means hope made real. It means faith realized. It's all anyone ever needs to know about what a man--or mankind--is possible of. Or woman/womankind.

Yep, wish I'd been there.



Roadie