In These Rooms, I heard a discussion on the ‘Alcoholic Mind.’ One guy said “… my mind is a neighborhood nobody wants to live in…” Another guy says “… The voice of my alcoholic mind is ‘A Little Person’ sitting on my shoulder not no fucking disease. God or no damn program ain’t gonna to remove that Little Person. I have to get over that shit…”
“…I got into a heated argument with my old man my senior year in high school. He pinned me against the wall and told me in the angriest voice “…Don’t ever forget where you come from…” My father looked like a giant to me in that moment. Years later, I held his hand and kissed him on his forehead as he lay on his death bed passing away. He seemed like a scared little boy to me in that moment. It’s amazing how our common humanity, good or bad, willingly or unwillingly, can bring us down to size. I have seen the biggest, meanest, toughest person become A Little Person by a simple act of kindness or love…”
Kirk from In These Rooms
I met Jessie In These Rooms. She is a 32-year-old white woman from what I’d call the Southside of God’s Kingdom. Jessie is a divorced alcoholic mother with four children; she is tough as nails. To hear her talk, one immediately got it, Jessie don’t brook a lot of dissension or, in the words of the street, “…she don’t take no shit…” Surprisingly, she took a liking to me. I guess it has something to do with, as they say, game recognizing game. We were talking one day, and Jessie started crying like a little girl and then shared with me “…I began drinking at 19 shortly after I was raped by a black man my neighborhood. I don’t know why, I haven’t been able to share that much, but feel I can trust it with you…” Go figure, like many of us, my badass dear friend also has a broken Little Person on the inside.
“…Dwayne P. Board was a fellow classmate at North Carolina A&T State University. Dwayne is 6’8 and weighed 275lbs. He was an All-American Defensive End and was drafted 137th in the 5th Round of the NFL Draft his senior year. Dwayne went on to enjoy a decade of success as a player in the NFL, to win and coach on Super Bowl Winning Teams and, to this day, coaches in the NFL as a Defensive Line Coach with the Seattle Seahawks. But, perhaps the most interesting thing about Dwayne P. Board is his nickname—Peewee. Yep, there is A Little Person on the inside of all of us…”
Stephen from In These Rooms
“…Transformation is coming to accept, appreciate, and even love your inner characters and where they have carried the man or woman in the mirror despite your past…”
The Professor
Thank God for our Inner Little People.
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