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Homework

Explain in the context of Slash's autobiography how getting sober can change someone's life.

 

Everybody can do it. Everybody? Yes, everybody. What can they do? Putting the bottle of beer aside and becoming sober. They can. Who are they? We call them alcoholics who cling to a bottle beer like it is their girlfriends or mothers. To stop this fatal attraction, some of them join the Anonymous Alcoholics and they try eagerly to swear off this femme fatale called alcohol.

Normal people might never fall deeply in love with alcohol and for them the state of sobriety might not be the biggest step in evolution but for former drug addicts, sometimes referred as rock stars, it is. They start to have a better vision and have the will to put their lives back on the right track. One of these rock stars is Slash, the guitarist of the group "Guns'n Roses" who talked about his addiction to alcohol and the state of sobriety. After becoming sober, Slash talked about the impact sobriety made in his life. He reported about having an improved vision. Slash said this about his ex-girlfriend, "Suddenly she was like a piece of furniture…" Some other people might not end up with a better vision but with the determined will to put things back together using sobriety as glue. Alcohol might have separated and broke some things like relationships but sobriety will work fine as glue to put them back.