Well lets begin this adventure with some facts;
I'm not a traditional blogger, I don't blog. So this could well stray into unknown territory for all of us.
I like being honest it creates the best stories and most difficult to believe in my experience, so I may well embellish some story to bring things back to earth.
I have no editor in this process, so what will be firstly discovered is - I am dyslexic, this playing havoc with my spelling and of course grammar.
However I have always believed content to be the most important, given you can understand it - well... can follow it.
So are you with me so far?
Great, all I can see is white fields of page ahead of me as cold lonely winds take letters across its drifts and settles something me.
(this will happen from time to time)
I say cold winds to try and counter the present state of my studio - dripping 35 degrees down bended walls and molten me.
Needless to say conducive for nakedness and a damn good ice coffee - all over.
So here we are almost at the beginning of my blog.
Cleverly I've created distance between now and the top of the page, thus allowing me to complete my blog before you're espoused to anything thoroughly damaging.
The Mid Beginning
I'm a drinker from way back, somewhere around 13 for me, and though my start was staggered it was consistent enough to have me come a good friend of the sidewalk.
Now I'm not going to take you down the road of the enevitable, most have their own atrocious story on this front.
I may have the unfortunate legacy of many a drinking story right into my now, however this is not quite what I'm blogging about today.
The Far Beginning
I have decided in Gods infinite wisdom, that this very month of February - this being the first of it days today - I will consume no alchol what so ever throughout all of it's celebratory happenings.
This has not come about through mere self observed restraint, but indeed an even better cause than my own personal health and relationships -that's another blog entirely.
I refer to FebFast,
the cause to be sponsoring, to be standing behind with the finance you'd normally throw at a good night out boozing and forgetting the day.
FebFast is about going without grog for the month of February to raise funds and awareness of drug and alcohol abuse within our youth culture.
Now I just made that up, but you can very well head to my Febfast page and clarify the intent and throw some sponsor ship my way.
Here's the link
http://www.febfastfundraising.com.au/chris_hobart
Don't be shy, it's not for a good cause, it's for young peoples lives and all of our futures.
I believe the money will be going to a number of organisations who have created suport programs for youth in the terrible hold of drug and alcohol abuse.
My aim is to get sponsor ship, to write this blog as I go about what's going through my mind and body as I abstain from drinking. To share the journey as it comes and hopefully be both informative and entertaining.
I want to see if we can't prevent as many young people as possible from struggling through their lives and ruining themselves with these addictions.
So I am the perfect candidate for this adventure, I being the very youth with all these addictions once myself.
Some might say now I am the old man with the addictions, I say all the more reason to support this and grow in understanding as apposed to judgment and what inevitably turns to abandonment.
So I'm urging you to support our young people around Australia by supporting me this month in Febfast.
Keep coming back to my blog, who knows I might get the hang of this.
and as a good friend of mine always says,
Go Well.
The Night Writer
happy to read along side you.. go well into this good night.. xx
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