That's a really powerful, meaningful ramble.
Thanks for sharing it and for the reminder.
I've now seen three friends go in the three total years I've been giving sobriety a legitimate run. I have almost two years in and I intend to be and remain a member of the "Got it after a few stumbles" group.
A good friend in the program told me not long ago, when we lost a friend to addiction via drugged-and-drunken suicide; "The longer you're in this... the more good people you'll lose".
It was a sobering (literally) thought. The reality is that we WILL see those folks. We will also see a lot of miracles and a lot of examples of lives turned around and saved. And in sobriety, if we're active and reaching out and giving back - maybe we'll even be blessed enough to have a role in helping some of those 2/3rds who make it onto the sober path. That said, we must accept that we will bear the burden also of seeing many who don't.
