After reading your post, I quickly picked
up on the part where you said the person
asked you for your number.
Can I hit my buzzer now.
If I were drinking and at a club and someone
asked me for my number, I surely wouldn't
hesitate. Id be too numb to care otherwise.
Now that Im sober, im more reserved. More
protective of myself and would never give my
number out to a stranger whom I know nothing
about.
If a newcomer is just coming into recovery,
I wouldn't want to scare them away. Bombarding
them with too much information would surely
scare them away.
My sponsor lead me thru recovery by her
actions and examples. She shared her ESH-
experiences, strengths and hopes with me
of what her life was like before, during and
after alcohol.
She was a shining example to me of what
recovery was in her own life and that was
what I wanted. So I followed in her footsteps
and actions and moved forward in my own
recovery a day at a time without drinking.
There were many step study meetings, Big
Book Studies, conventions, speaker meetings,
that were always going on and it was my
responsibility to get to them to learn all that
I needed to learn in order to stay sober facing
lifes situations.
After learning how to incorporate steps in
my life, I began to live them in all my affairs.
Even at 24 yrs sobriety, I still live them to keep
me grounded in my own life and recovery.
Listen, Learn, Absorb, Apply