Old 05-05-2012, 03:06 PM
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Terminally Unique
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Your Beast is going to be very interested in recovery statistics, in how much sober time other people have, and in who gets drunk again. You need to understand that the Beast will actively seek out the uncertainty principle, anything at all that might point to failure and suggest that you can't really maintain lifetime abstinence. Someone posted very recently about being strangely jealous of people who 'relapse', but that is just their Beast yearning for its own personal party.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter what other people do, however, and it is best not to entangle your own recovery with anybody else's. This is mentioned in RR: The New Cure, on pages 159-160. To really put things in perspective, it is often best to simply consider oneself the first person in history to every beat their addiction. That way, it doesn't matter what those who have gone before you have done, or what they may do in the future. Your recovery is your own, and does not depend on theirs.
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