night on the town

I'm starting to believe that every one of my morals is being tested one by one. Today it was my friend's 18th birthday so we went to the lounge for a few rounds. While there we were all sitting together in a group and some complete stranger comes up, sits down, and starts talking to us and the like. At first we took him lightly not thinking much of this, thinking he was just a drunk. As the evenning wore on he moved to other groups of people but in the end just kinda sat there by himself and looked really sad. I couldn't just ignore him, so i went to him and asked what was wrong. This lead into a long conversation with him, he explained that he knew he had a problem and that he just can't win. He was an alcoholic, he didn't want to lose his job and lovd his family and didn't want to let them down but seemed to always fuck things up. I talked to him for a very long time, i really don't know how long exactly but i do know it was quite a while. In the end i convinced him to go home, and make some phone calls in the morning to get help, to tell his family about his problem. I exchanged numbers with him as well hoping i could make a difference, i even paid for his cab ride home. I don't know if i did the right thing, i like to believe i did, i know for a fact that most people would not have done what i did tonight. I hope he's ok, and i hope he'll get the help he needs.

-Matt