I know that I came to SR in crisis, an exhausted, neurotic mess.
And it was the oldtimers here who helped me work my program and stick with it. I saw something I wanted and am ever grateful to all those who came before me and shone their light.
And yet it is often the newcomer who reminds me where I came from and how bad it was. This motivates me to stay diligent to my program so that I never have to go back to that dark place I came from.
That said, perhaps we should have more threads here sharing the good stuff of our program (like Cats posted). And perhaps we oldtimers should share more about how we got to that good place we are in today. Sharing that helps me and, hopefully, helps the newcomer too, to see that there is hope and there is a better way to live and to see that bad days don't last forever.
Good food for thought here.
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