21. Deteriorating
Orbit
The next night I felt
well enough to go to an AA meeting.
“Do you know what a deteriorating orbit is?” My friend Marti
asked me. She was a science teacher in
her early forties, two years sober, and getting out of her marriage.
“Isn’t that when something going around and around something
bigger eventually falls into that larger something?”
She nodded. “I think I’ve
finally escaped my husband’s orbit,” she said.
“He’s this big ball of fire people love until they really get to know
him. By that time, he’s pulled them into orbit around him. They’re in business with him, or they’ve
bought a boat together. They’ve had a couple kids with him.”
“How’d you do it?” I asked
“Distance. I’ve kept
my distance. The further I am from that man, the less pull he has on me. I
think it’s the same with booze. The further
away I stay, less pull toward it I feel. ”
Today I will put distance is the key to
avoiding a deteriorating orbit.
Needles Not For Knitting is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between the characters
and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.
Needles Not For Knitting (c) 2017 by Ken
Montrose
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