As it's said, life goes on. Most of us have wasted so much of our time. I can remember the seasons changing from summer to winter without me even realizing it because I was so busy getting high and drunk all the time. I was always in the dark about everything that was going on around me. I felt like life was going by super fast, like it was just slipping away and so it was. When we lose our ability to feel life as it is happening it becomes meaningless to us. This is where most of us found ourselves. We never set out for this to happen to us; it just does as the result of drinking and drugging all the time. We can reconnect with life again through the program of recovery and it's 12 steps. It's not always easy, but always worth it because we'll only pass this way but once.