Welcome to the Moth Podcast.
I'm your host this week, Sarah Austin-Jeaness.
Okay, we have three stories for you in this episode all about a moment of truth.
We're talking epiphanies, breaking points, and big time decisions.
First up, Tim Summers.
Tim told the story at a Pittsburgh story slam where the theme of the night was fresh.
Here's Tim live at the Moth.
I was a horrible raging alcoholic for 25 years.
Here's the thing about being a drunk or really any kind of addict for that long.
The longer you go on, the less you have to lose,
and the more you just say to yourself, why quit now?
I've already lost everything.
I lost girlfriends, a wife, a house, jobs, money, self-respect.
They say that the only way that you can quit is for yourself.
I don't know about that.
I quit for a girl.
Or at least I quit when it became clear that I had one thing in my life that was worth quitting for and that was Stacy.
We had dated all through college and we broke up the last day of college and we got back together 25 years later and it wasn't just being with her but it was also that she was with me before everything went wrong and it felt
like it was another chance to be the person I was back then before everything went wrong.
I got sober on October 21st, 2013.