Scatty Rant involving Parachutes and Alcohol Free Nights Out!

Scatty Rant involving Parachutes and Alcohol Free Nights Out!

Hi, OK so advance apology because my mind is racing so this will probably be a somewhat scatty blog post lol.

Right first, parachute jump! Yes parachute jump, the act of throwing oneself out of a moving plane at altitude! How bonkers does that sound blimey! The thought of it alone scares the life out of me yet it is something I am considering doing for charity, namely the recovery charity that I use.  I’m trying to break down the fear to work out exactly what part scares me and would need attention. It strikes me the fear I have would be for the brief moments in which I would be free falling, that fear of what if the parachute does not open? Etc. I honestly feel once the parachute opened and I knew I would be landing in one alive piece I would probably enjoy gliding through the sky and taking in the sights!

The next thing on my mind is the fact that there is not a late night social venue in my hometown of Rugby, nor nearby Coventry furthermore to my knowledge Birmingham the so called second city, which is alcohol free. This to many sounds alien I’m sure but I feel such a venue is needed for people in recovery. Somewhere to go and have a good night out, dance, socialise etc without alcohol being a factor. Furthermore recovery and addiction aside from this there are just some people who don’t particularly like or care for drink and would love a social environment free of drink and drunk people. I spoke to someone about this recently and they said “what’s the point, you only go out to get drunk, why else would you go out?” This represents everything for me that is wrong with modern society, what happened to going out to socialise and meet people and dance rather than to just get pissed?

I’m going to leave you today with another quote I’ve come across which refers to addiction and I find to be very accurate!

‘You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town!’