I did see the light
I'm happy you did, and reading about it always makes me smile. I know/knew too many people who sadly never did see it. For example, my uncle was a hardcore alcoholic. I remember when I was little and in my teens, he always seemed to be in the hospital. It didn't help that my grandmother always made excuses for him and gave us bullshit reasons for the latest hospitalization. One time, he was supposedly walking down the street, was knocked unconscious from behind, and was driven several miles and then dumped in a field. Yet they didn't steal anything from him? I'm guessing he fell and hit his head at home.
Anyway, he was able to acknowledge eventually that he had problems, yet he always claimed that everything would be great if only he had his own house, was married, at his dream car, etc. To his credit, I guess he was a functioning alcoholic for a while, and was able to work hard enough to achieve all those things. That's when he then nosedived. I suppose he realized the house, wife, and car didn't magically make him any happier, and he lost all hope. Eventually, he managed to hit the brakes for a little bit, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had it operated out. But then he went back to hardcore boozing, stopped looking after himself again, never went back to the doctor, and died eight years ago from inoperable lung cancer.
I know that's probably a bummer to read, but I wanted to provide some contrast for why reading about your seeing the light made my day
