Originally Posted by Candy Scratch
Yet, I keep coming here and I keep seeing the "regulars" -- responding to each Newcomer to Recovery, offering inspiration and the same good advice over and over and over again. The Newcomers come and go and you remain.
And I must wonder -- how do you do it? How do you not get depressed at the numbers of newcomers coming every single day? How do you not let yourselves get down at all of those, like me, who fail a hundred thousand times while trying to gain sobriety?
How?
Because someone didn't give up on me and kept coming back with the message till I got it.
Out of a gratefulness of what another has done for me and the joy I know from a sober life, I will share so that others will find the same. Some may "get it" the first time...most will get it after a few times of listening. If it took me 10 times of hearing the message and Jim stopped at number 9...ouch.
Just gratefully doing for others what was done for me is all.