A member of Alcoholics Anonymous once sent columnist Ann Landers the following:
We drank for happiness and became unhappy.
We drank for joy and became miserable.
We drank for sociability and became argumentative.
We drank for sophistication and became obnoxious.
We drank for friendship and made enemies.
We drank for sleep and awakened without rest.
After reading the letter and posting it in her column, Ann Landers made this comment:
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
On the subject of sorrow, the Bible has the following to say:
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
Give it some thought and the drinks will be on me.
Gary