Taz,
Isn't that the truth? lol...
Here I am 3 days sober. I've been "back" to the program for 3 weeks and I've already had 4 relapses. And yet I still think I know better than my sponsor who has 11 years of sobriety, and a wonderful, happy life, and I also know better than his sponsor who has over 40 years of sobriety, and an even more wonderful, more happy life.
The words pride and arrogance come to mind....
Here's the really weird thing. Even as I sit here watching my life fall apart at the seems, watching my body fall apart at the seems, and just generally being miserable and full of self pity, I can still look back at how it happened and actually laugh and joke about it. 'Cuz I've been in the program before, I know how it works, and I know it does work, and when I look at my life now instead of being upset or angry, for some reason I just chuckle and say to myself "Yep, that's what they told me would happen".....