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An Alcoholic
By peace | May 8, 2007
Life with an alcoholic is hard. The alcoholic squandered his money on alcohols. He abused the families. There is no warmth in the family, most alcoholics end up with a broken family. They lost their job and they hurt their families.
Over the years where I had been working, I met several types of people. Most of the people were generally ‘normal’ — there were ordinary people, with normal work, normal family, normal lifestyle and normal thinking as most of majority of individuals. There were a minority, a handful of people who were not the norm and they left a deep impression on me. These are the disabled person, the sex maniac and the alcoholic addict.
The alcoholic addict was neighbour and client as well. I got to know him when I first move in to this flat, now where I am living. He was always seen drinking at the void deck of the flat. Everyday when I finished work, I could see him sitting at the void deck, holding on to a big bottle of beer. He was alone drinking most of the time. He was a friendly person. He greeted me one day for the first time that we had met each other, and that was how we got to know each other. We chatted about insurance and he became my client later on. I went to his house and got to know his wife and child, their adopted child.
As time passed, I got to know this family better. My client, Ranjit (not the real name), started to ask me for money. He said he did not have enough money and wanted me to lend him some money. I lent him $20. Later on the wife called me. She told me not to lend him anymore money. He used all his money for drinking. When he was drunk, he would batter the old parents in the family. He would hammer his wife too. I felt sorry for the wife and I told her I would not lend him anymore money. Obviously Ranjit was addicted to alcohol. He needed alcohol treatment. However, not all people can afford to go for treatment. They are poor family. They are not even aware of the existence of drug rehab centre, which help addicts.
Ranjit never returned the money to me. He borrowed twice from me. The first time $50. After what the wife had told me, I never lend him any more money. I tried to shun him, as I feel sandwiched in between him and his wife. For some time, I never talked to him nor the wife.
One day after several months had past, I met Ranjit’s wife at the neighbourhood. She told me that Ranjit had injured her parents while he was drunk. He even battered his wife. They were filing for divorce at the time when I met her. It was a sad story. Their adopted daughter was intelligent and knew nothing about all these. Ranjit’s wife did not know what to do, but had to make this final decision as she had suffered enough from her alcoholic husband.
Ranjit was arrested by the police for abusing his parents-in-law. He in and out of the police station was some time. The wife stayed alone in the flat, with her daughter and her elderly parents. Ranjit never went home after that. He left the home. One day, I saw the wife’s brother moved in to stay with the wife. He moved in to help out with the family and to look after his sister — to make sure that Ranjit would not come again to harass them.
What happen to Ranjit now? I do not know. Their family had moved away now. If Ranjit’s case was known earlier, and if someone had helped the family, this whole incident would not have happen. Alcohol had destroyed Ranjit’s families, not just his family alone. He lost his job as a consequence of alcoholism as well.
Drug addiction is bad. Anyone who know of friends or families who might be drugs addicts must help them to overcome the problem. Early treatment is always easier. I have never had any experience of being an addict before. However, I know of a place for drug addicts to seek treatment, and that is thewatershed.com drug rehab clinic!
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