David Fekete

I’ve seen both sides.  I lived a long time drunk or high every day.  And when I wasn’t high I was thinking about getting high.  Here’s the things I did when I was a drunk:

• get mad so I needed a drink
• get drunk

Now I live a clean and sober life.  Here’s the things I do, now that I am sober:

• write music
• record original music and play with other musicians
• form healthy relationships
• play card games with friends
• volunteer in interfaith functions
• sit on a faculty committee
• teach classes at church
• organize lecture series
• feel my emotions
• read philosophy, poetry, and fiction
• go out on dates without drinking
• listen to live music and hear it and enjoy it
• write poetry
• buy art with the money I don’t spend on drugs
• enjoy life
• laugh and cry

There are still struggles in life and hard days.  But, as a musician friend of mine said about the process of recording my original music, “enjoy the process.”