Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Weary of myself, and sick of asking
What I am, and what I ought to be,
At this vessels prow I stand, which bears me
Forwards, forwards, oer the starlit sea.
And a look of passionate desire
Oer the sea and to the stars I send:
Ye who from my childhood up have calmd me,
Calm me, ah, compose me to the end!
Ah, once more, I cried, ye stars, ye waters,
On my heart your mighty charm renew;
Still, still let me, as I gaze upon you,
Feel my soul becoming vast like you!
From the intense, clear, star-sown vault of heaven,
Over the lit seas unquiet way,
In the rustling night-air came the answer:
Wouldst thou be as these are? Live as they.
Unaffrighted by the silence round them,
Undistracted by the sights they see,
These demand not that the things without them
Yield them love, amusement, sympathy.
And with joy the stars perform their shining,
And the sea its long moon-silverd roll;
For self-poised they live, nor pine with noting
All the fever of some differing soul.
Bounded by themselves, and unregardful
In what state Gods other works may be,
In their own tasks all their powers pouring,
These attain the mighty life you see.
O air-born voice! long since, severely clear,
A cry like thine in mine own heart I hear:
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,
Who finds himself, loses his misery!