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Old 08-26-2020, 05:57 PM
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IcedVoVo
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Great posts, Efra.

Just what I needed to hear. I’m reading over the reasons to stay sober. Sometimes I lose my enthusiasm for sobriety and that scares me. The ‘forgetting’ of all the gifts. So it’s 7:30 pm and I feel a Wednesday night meeting coming on! I think it was my boss happily discussing the increase of bars and boozy festivals in our downtown with our software vendor. I was on calls all day and that was during the last one. It didn’t make me want to drink. It made me feel like an outsider. Then, I finally logged out and felt off

From that to a pandemic evening at home. Saw the latest Gulf Hurricane news and thinking of people just 4 hours away dealing with that nightmare. I’m sad. It’s this ‘nowhere to go’ feeling. Do you know it? It means I need to talk to a sober alcoholic! Those feelings are real, but it’s not the way I want to keep looking at it. I need to look HERE. This direction. Towards good health. Life. Empathy. Maybe I can help. I have a rich full life like so many here. There’s that group out there that I used to be part of.. I see them at work sometimes. I see them on Facebook sometimes. Lots of effort goes into that shallow life of pretending to be cool and fun. Not feeling much, apathetic, living in a bubble. Waking up hungover. Being irritable until after lunch. It’s a bit like a haunting..it gets under my skin.

Good news: This week I feel like I made a new friend. A non-drinking one. A real friend. I’m thinking of that blessing.

I am so grateful to be with you on this path. Thank you for listening.

If you have ONE thing you can share with me, and with everyone..that you love about your sober life, could you share it? (Or ten things)

thank You

xxxxxx24

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