Back to Reality
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Back to Reality
Today I picked up my 90 day chip. It's the second time I picked one of these up so it didn't seem that momentous to me. I won't really be happy until I get that 6 month chip that I missed last time, by 2 weeks.
Anyway, tomorrow I return back to work after taking 3 months off for treatment. It's kinds of bitter sweet, I'm back at work, back in grad school and back to all the things that I thought defined me, but now after having time off, I know they truly do not.
Just happy I took that time off to focus on myself and really devoted that time to only one thing, because I'm the type of person where I'm never ever focusing just on one thing.
Anyway, tomorrow I return back to work after taking 3 months off for treatment. It's kinds of bitter sweet, I'm back at work, back in grad school and back to all the things that I thought defined me, but now after having time off, I know they truly do not.
Just happy I took that time off to focus on myself and really devoted that time to only one thing, because I'm the type of person where I'm never ever focusing just on one thing.
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: East Coast
Posts: 1,906
good job...any day when we don't drink, we win another battle in a war of attrition.
so....do not minimize your accomplishment over a disease that most people lose their life from. you're doing what it takes and doing it one day or 3 months is the same as doing it 5000 days because all we ever have is the 24 hours right in front of us.
keep defying the odds. matter of fact....f' the odds. we recovering addicts and alcoholics write the book on making the impossible, possible.
stay strong bro.
so....do not minimize your accomplishment over a disease that most people lose their life from. you're doing what it takes and doing it one day or 3 months is the same as doing it 5000 days because all we ever have is the 24 hours right in front of us.
keep defying the odds. matter of fact....f' the odds. we recovering addicts and alcoholics write the book on making the impossible, possible.
stay strong bro.
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mississippi
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When I got out of treatment it felt like culture shock at first, and I was only in for 30 days. Glad you're going to meetings. Give yourself the time and space you need to readjust - it will come.......
One thing I noticed right away is that I had been in an environment where people were honest and talked about important stuff - thoughts, feelings, etc...... In the "real" world, most people are more closed off (superficial?). I felt a little naked at times........ but so grateful that I was able to make a clean start again.
Congrats on 90 days - that's fantastic!!!
One thing I noticed right away is that I had been in an environment where people were honest and talked about important stuff - thoughts, feelings, etc...... In the "real" world, most people are more closed off (superficial?). I felt a little naked at times........ but so grateful that I was able to make a clean start again.
Congrats on 90 days - that's fantastic!!!
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY
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Re:Back to Reality
Congrats, on achieving the 90 day mark. Your second time around may just be the moment you've been waiting for, where your achievement stretches beyond the 90 day barrier towards that 6 month milestone. We hope it does, regardless of how it plays out. The important thing -besides remaining sober, is your happiness and you sound jovial despite the hectic schedule. We wish you many more sober yet happy memories -one day at a time.
~God bless~
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