enjoy the gift
enjoy the gift
Good morning folks. Just wanted to say enjoy your sobriety today. It's truly a gift! If you have any doubts just look around you at those who suffer from this disease. Its hard to watch. Im feeling grateful this morning. I wanted to pass that along. Stay sober today everyone. Its a wonderful gift!!!
I don't get much mileage out of seeing how others suffer from alcoholism. Watching others not enjoying "the gift" doesn't ring my bells, and never will for plenty of good reasons. I know your likely just wanting to share your happy about being sober, but I don't get why if one has self-doubt they would do well to compare themselves to those who still suffer...
I think we can take a life of sobriety and feel gifted and so on. I do believe enjoyment of life is a gift. Sobriety itself being an outright gift itself?... not so much. It implies the work I did and still do to keep sober is not as important as feeling gifted. Like anything else in life, sober living is not without its costs and pains to rightly earn the freedom from addiction.
I guess I'm feeling for those who read this and they are of the guys who are still suffering...
If it was me, I wouldn't feel any better knowing others are feeling the gift, and when they doubt, they look to my sufferings for their encouragement to enjoy their gift...
I think we can take a life of sobriety and feel gifted and so on. I do believe enjoyment of life is a gift. Sobriety itself being an outright gift itself?... not so much. It implies the work I did and still do to keep sober is not as important as feeling gifted. Like anything else in life, sober living is not without its costs and pains to rightly earn the freedom from addiction.
I guess I'm feeling for those who read this and they are of the guys who are still suffering...
If it was me, I wouldn't feel any better knowing others are feeling the gift, and when they doubt, they look to my sufferings for their encouragement to enjoy their gift...
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I feel grateful this morning because winter is gone and my friends and family are all well. I don't get mileage out of watching other alcoholics suffer either but I get a lot out of remembering how I used to once in a while. Have a great day, Wayne, Robby, and Dee!
Robby I think you misinterpreted my message here. I would never get any "milage" out of the suffering of another practicing alcoholic. Or anyone suffering from any kind of disease for that matter. I despise alcoholism and how it destroys us and families. My message is simple. If your an alcoholic and you are not drinking however the means you were able to quit, then that to me is a "gift".
There are many people that join us here at sr and try to quit. Many have self doubts after just a few days. If they read this thread and think to themselves....hmm, if I keep going then I'll receive the gift hes talking about. My intention here robby is to get people to think. If I say one thing that helps the sobriety of our members here then I achieved my goal for the day.
I take this disease very seriously. It almost killed me. If I get one more day im grateful. I hope others here feel the same way.
There are many people that join us here at sr and try to quit. Many have self doubts after just a few days. If they read this thread and think to themselves....hmm, if I keep going then I'll receive the gift hes talking about. My intention here robby is to get people to think. If I say one thing that helps the sobriety of our members here then I achieved my goal for the day.
I take this disease very seriously. It almost killed me. If I get one more day im grateful. I hope others here feel the same way.
Waynetheking,
Perhaps I have misinterpreted, it happens, lol. As long as we're not comparing our good fortune to others misfortune, then amen brother!!
I guess it was the way it was worded, imo.
Peace. And congrats on your sobriety!
Perhaps I have misinterpreted, it happens, lol. As long as we're not comparing our good fortune to others misfortune, then amen brother!!
I guess it was the way it was worded, imo.
Peace. And congrats on your sobriety!
I was telling a friend about my day. I spent it watching my daughter read a book she wrote to her Kindergarten class. After, my son worked with me in the yard, he is three. It's these moments that I am truly grateful to be present and aware. I used to coast through life, annoyed at things that kept me from my drink. If you could bottle this feeling up everyone would be addicted to it...contentment.
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