Kevin wants to go to college

I just visited Kevin this morning. He had a gash on his forehead from where he fell down the stairs into his apartment a few days ago. He had a seizure. “I always fall on the back of my head” but he couldn’t work that out under the circumstances, and there was no carpet on the floor. While I was there we thought of, and I wrote on a piece of paper which I stuck to his refrigerator, reasons he might quit drinking. (He says he started again because he got bored.)
College is his number one reason.
Kevin inspired me to sign up for college a few years ago (I’m graduating in a month.) He said then that he was going to sign up for Spanish. I thought, “if Kevin can do it I can too.” Not long after that he fell off the wagon.
So he still wants to go to college. Now he wants to study Sociology. When he says this he is dead-on serious. But like many drunks it does not account for the fact that really all he can do when he’s drinking is recover from the last drink and plan for the next one. His body suffers: partly because he has Hepatitis C and partly because he’s been hit on the head so many times he has a seizure disorder. If he weren’t drinking he could take seizure medication which would moderate his seizures. Plus he wouldn’t have the nasty problem of those seizures he gets when he’s deprived of alcohol.
I got him to say, "I don’t want to live in the past—I want to live for the future.” Yesterday I heard my spiritual adviser say , “The ego lives out of the past. The soul is looking to the future.” Ours was a good visit.