Originally Posted by
aasharon90 
Ive learned that in helping those just
beginning their recovery journey is to
not tell them what to do. I try to treat
others the way i'd like to be treated.
We learn to use the power of suggestion
to guide one another thru a recovery
process made up of knowledge and tools
to help not drink or use one day at a time.
I agree with this. Not "telling other folks what to do". But that doesn't mean I can't say what worked for me and what didn't work for me. I hated the prospect of never drinking again. So I drank off and on for 30 years. Episodically. It wasn't a disaster but it could have been. Looking back on it all, it wasn't much "fun" either. And now, after 25 years of not drinking, I look back on it and am amazed that I could ever have thought it would be "boring", "monotonous", "dull", etc. Those ideas must have originated somewhere in the bottom of my sick mind which was trying to persuade me to keep up with the big lie, that booze is "fun", that no one wants to be a "party poop"!
W.