An interview with the singer/songwriter Jason Isbell
"For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life. I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober. For me, no, I'm not a particularly religious person. I was determined not to convert during that process."
Jason Isbell
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/17/202369759/jason-isbell-locates-his-musical-compass-on-southeastern
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18283-jason-isbell-southeastern/
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Matti who had been an alcoholic became sober with the help of the Alcoholics Anonymous twelve-step programme, gradually however he became somewhat fanatical about his sobriety. One day while speaking with his wife she said in half-seriousness “You know I respect the effort he has made to pull himself up but sometimes I feel I liked him better when he was a drunk’. Through the memory of a shared experience we could smile about the situation and yet be glad that he was not being destroyed through addiction.
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