Originally Posted by
MycoolFitz 
I can't describe how much more fulfilling my life is sober instead of drunk. Everything, even the hard times, are a gift.
There is a old Buddhist saying:
"In this life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional"
Most of my life I thought this was pure Bull****.
Now I have MORE material problems then ever before. To a third party observer it must look like suffering. But from my "new attitude", I see it as diamonds in the rough:
"Adversity is the soil that the soul grows best in"
- Richard Paul Evens