The Lever (excerpt from (THE THIRD MOVEMENT) (c) 2019
“There’s a lever, a thought, that is pulled in the mind that tells us when we are doing something that we shouldn’t be doing. When using I learned to ignore that lever. That lever pulled can also be referred to as inhibitions. The counselor told me I had a problem. But I wasn’t having any of that. I told her I just enjoyed drinking.” Howard was now wiping the tears out of his eyes as he remembered the scene. A scene like it was watching someone else. Howard wondered if he had such a lever in his brain. Felicia patted him on the back, “It takes a while to get it back. We call it 'progress rather than perfection.’” *** Whispers came through The Owner’s mind. Bringing him back to logic. The Owner was becoming familiar with another type of lever. One in which conscious familiar thought, a memory comes. He remembered the name ‘Beatrice’ he heard in junior high school. The teacher’s name was Misses Herring. She was overweight, and looked almost exactly l