Old Timer's in Recovery!
Hi to all the OLd Timers here!
I am 61, and have been in recovery for 25 years.
Would love to here the thoughts of others who are not newly sober, but have been there for many years.
Sometimes I forget where I came from, and how difficult it was . Do you have trouble relating to the newcomers when trying to help them? It has been so long for me. Antidepressants were just beginning to be used when I began my recovery. AA was the ONLY game in town, and I never fit in there, just pretty much sucked it up and did it minute to minute.
I know this much, there have been many times I wondered if I could have just one drink from time to time, like some of the New thinking!!!.......I break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it, cause I know miracles don't happen very often. Me stopping the first time was truly a miracle, a gift.
Never the less I tell all my friends when the time comes and I have only a few weeks to live---bring in the booze and the cigarettes by the truckload and I will die happy