Shinedown had it right. What a shame......

Charlie Sheen is not drawing a lot of sympathy right now. He is really going to need it later on. That is if he decides to give being sober a shot. If he doesn't he has two options remaining, insanity or early death. You can write it down and remind me later. It is one of the three.

The lyrics from the song say, "What a shame what a shame to judge a life that you can't change." And it's 100% correct. Only Charlie has a chance to change. But the people who say that he is a spoiled brat with no willpower really don't understand how sick he is. Drunks don't lack willpower. I am one so I should know. How many people who say that could drink all night and then mix a screwdriver the first thing in the morning and drink it through a straw because their hands are shaking too much to hold it? Not a damn one of them. Is that a lack of willpower? No. A lack of judgement for sure, but that takes some stones.

What Charlie hasn't figured out yet is the group with the initials he ranted about has saved millions of people just like him. Just because he is on a yacht and someone else is under a bridge is just a matter of location. They will both end up in the same place if they don't get help. With all the people willing to suck up to Charlie and cover for him it might take longer. It might not. If anyone is old enough to remember Jim Morrison or John Belushi they know.

I am not suggesting that he be held up as some type of martyr either. He will have to answer for his own actions one day. I actually saw some people say they "liked" him. I wonder if that was when he was choking the mother of his children. Or when he beat up the hooker and locked her in a closet? How do you like someone who does that? Or when all his co-workers lost their jobs because he couldn't do his? There sure is a lot to "like" about a man like that.

Judging him is not my intent. Some of the stunts I pulled when I was drinking are still a source of anguish to me twenty five years later. I've tried to make amends where possible but you still never forget what you were like. And it serves as a damn good reminder of why you never want to go back. So hard as it may be, if you're Christian, say a prayer for Charlie. If not hope he gets some help. Because without he adds to the list of promising young people who never did figure out that one day at a time thing really does work. If you work it.



Till next.......