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| The active alocholic does have a 'way of life,' a map--but it is the wrong map. A traveler's story suggests the point... Several years ago, I flew tfrom Atlanta, Georgia to Detroit, Michigan en route to a meeting in northern Michigan. Renting a car, I laid out a book of maps on the passenger seat and proceeded to set out for the northern Michigan peninsula. The map of the metropolitan area was beautifully detailed, showing the airport on the west of the city, the large body of water to the city's east, and route 94, the interstate highway. But after almost an hour of wandering around looking at road signs that failed to match the map and obviously getting nowhere, the realization slowly dawned: Ford Freeway on which I was driving would never turn into the Edens Experessway shown on the map. The map of Detroit didn't work because it was the wrong map: It was the map of Chicago. |
The "wrong map" (drinking alcohol as a means of easing pain or in finding wholeness, for example) helps neither in getting out of the "wrong" place nor in finding the "right" place.
