Hi nvguy - I don't believe in bad luck cycles and I don't believe that Karma manifests itself in a My Name is Earl kinda way...
we all have good stuff happen to us, and bad.
What I do believe is a lot of bad stuff happened to me when I was drinking because my focus was on drinking...I wasn't taking care of business - I was just rolling along with the tide, drinking.
It's worth mentioning too I had a very low threshold of pain for bad stuff.
Having bad stuff happen is actually not entirely a bad thing for an active alcoholic either, because every bad thing was another chance to drink.
I could have fixed stuff, but I drank instead.
When I first got sober, I really noticed anything bad because I'd yet to work out ways to deal with bad stuff apart from drinking...
but it's a pretty swift learning curve nvguy and you'll get there
With a little sobriety my head cleared and I began to dig myself of all the bad consequences I'd accumulated - it may take some time, but you will too
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