Originally Posted by
newby1961 
Everyone has had to walk through some pretty heavy minefields name some and tell us how you did it?
At about one year sober I got a job as an Over The Road truck driver. The first two months were a living hell. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I did not get home for 2 months. I did not get to a recovery meeting for 9 weeks. I was fined almost as much as I earned. I spent many nights on on-ramps, dirt roads and factory parking lots. It was so lonely, boring and frightening that it made my homeless days look good.
The one good thing that came of it. I did learn how to meditate as a result of my lab-rat existence. I now understand the old Buddhist saying:
"In this life pain is mandatory - suffering is optional".