Most airlines you can purchase a service for minors flying alone:
"Our unaccompanied minor service is required for kids who are traveling alone.” United Airlines
Boy that description describes most people who suffer from addiction.
It sometimes felt like I was doing this life on my own—like a parent putting their child on a flight by themselves—an unaccompanied minor. Flying solo. Drinking as I got older made me feel able to be more “a part of” the scene. More relaxed. Fears calmed. More adult. Confident that I could fit in with others and be ok. Accompanied—In reality, it took me further away from my true self and from others.
Maybe that’s why they serve alcohol on planes? For all the unaccompanied minors on the aircraft. In my alcoholism, I was MORE of an unaccompanied minor. My behaviors were random, unreliable, and unpredictable. Childlike.
The late Matthew Perry said this about his journey in addiction:
"I was so often on the outside looking in, still that kid up in the clouds on a flight to somewhere else, unaccompanied.” Matthew Perry
How was I to live this life without my best friend, alcohol? What was the solution to my disease of alcoholism and addiction? It took me many years to get there, but I finally found my answer…Connection. When I took the alcohol out of the mix, I was able to reconnect.
Connection and surrender to God, who is always with me. God always was with me, I was just separated from access to His power when I was drinking. And, connection with others people like myself (meetings.) I never have to be alone.
With God and connection with others, I am never unaccompanied in this life.
Sober.
Fully present.
Connected.
Try it. It’s free :)
“Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.” Psalm 73:23
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