Screw it
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What would you say Bob, if you were reading this same thread, only it was written by somebody else?
Would it be like this?
Or maybe this?
This?
"Screw it" is not the answer, it's not the next right thing....
Would it be like this?
Let's say the same thing in a different way and see how it looks...
"My house is burning. So anyway, aside from calling the fire department (not happening anytime soon), is there anything I can do?"
Well, actually, yes there is. You can organize a bucket brigade from the nearest well to the house using neighbors...
You can turn on the garden hose and use that to try to put out the fire...
Either of those qualifies as "anything I can do", but I'd be a bit doubtful about them.
PS. As to your thread title, you do NOT need a drink. You want one, and badly, but you don't need it. A choice. Yours.
"My house is burning. So anyway, aside from calling the fire department (not happening anytime soon), is there anything I can do?"
Well, actually, yes there is. You can organize a bucket brigade from the nearest well to the house using neighbors...
You can turn on the garden hose and use that to try to put out the fire...
Either of those qualifies as "anything I can do", but I'd be a bit doubtful about them.
PS. As to your thread title, you do NOT need a drink. You want one, and badly, but you don't need it. A choice. Yours.
...you are an alcoholic, which means you have a disease...alcoholism...right? OK...so since when should we feel guilt and shame for being sick...for having a disease? You know the answer to that...we shouldn't.
AA has a saying..."Take it easy". That can be lengthened to "Take it easy...on yourself".
AA has a saying..."Take it easy". That can be lengthened to "Take it easy...on yourself".
...we can all find an excuse to drink...or we can choose to maintain our sobriety. Our choice. No excuses.
"Screw it" is not the answer, it's not the next right thing....
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Hey BB,.The miracle happens,in time.One Day At A Time.Its ,in,progress.
keep on keeping on,making no judgements,just doing.Focus on the doing,the next right thing.The best is yet to be.believe this.For this is the "truth".
keep on keeping on,making no judgements,just doing.Focus on the doing,the next right thing.The best is yet to be.believe this.For this is the "truth".
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Hey Bob - please don't go out. If you already have... I say "Fall seven times, stand up eight." I know words may not mean much right now, but you know - you *know* - that sober is better, that drinking is more or less as far from the answer as you can get. I hate to hear your pain. Please come back in.
best to you.
--anne
best to you.
--anne
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Bob,
I wish I could tell you to go out and drink and your life will get better and your problems will go away and you will be so happy tomorrow that you made the right decision.
I wish...
Hang in there my cyber friend,
Gianna
I wish I could tell you to go out and drink and your life will get better and your problems will go away and you will be so happy tomorrow that you made the right decision.
I wish...
Hang in there my cyber friend,
Gianna
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Gee thanks Doug...hung by my own words is NOT my idea of fun...
On the other hand, while I feel no better...yet...I'm still hanging on, though the fingernails are beginning to rip out.
I will or I won't. I know I'm trying not to, but we'll see.
BubbaBob
On the other hand, while I feel no better...yet...I'm still hanging on, though the fingernails are beginning to rip out.
I will or I won't. I know I'm trying not to, but we'll see.
BubbaBob
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Bubba:
Thinking about that nice cold beer or that good stiff drink now,are ya? Just a couple to relax and unwind would feel pretty damn good right about now, huh?
Well instead of thinking about how damn good it will taste, think about how damn bad your life was or has become because of the $hit. Think about the bad times you had from drinking. I'm sure your drinking days were not all singing for he's a jolly good fellow with your buddies at a bar.
I wanted a beer today. As a matter of fact I wanted a beer so goddamed bad I could taste it. But I thought about the living hell I came from and said no fugging way am I going back. Because you know what Bubba, God gave you a gift. And that gift is the ability to quit once. You and me might not get that gift again. Don't treat this gift from God, which is sobriety, like some fruitcake you got from a neighbor at Christmas. Count your blessings.
Thinking about that nice cold beer or that good stiff drink now,are ya? Just a couple to relax and unwind would feel pretty damn good right about now, huh?
Well instead of thinking about how damn good it will taste, think about how damn bad your life was or has become because of the $hit. Think about the bad times you had from drinking. I'm sure your drinking days were not all singing for he's a jolly good fellow with your buddies at a bar.
I wanted a beer today. As a matter of fact I wanted a beer so goddamed bad I could taste it. But I thought about the living hell I came from and said no fugging way am I going back. Because you know what Bubba, God gave you a gift. And that gift is the ability to quit once. You and me might not get that gift again. Don't treat this gift from God, which is sobriety, like some fruitcake you got from a neighbor at Christmas. Count your blessings.
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My relapse in June was most likely fueled in large part with rage and disatisfaction at the results given to me. They were not what I expected, nor what I wanted.
Weeks of torment, fighting, looking for reasons to pick up rather than reasons not to...
Talk about a lonely place...
You're still carrying the message Bob, even now, as you're face to face with what seems the ugly, vulnerable truth about our condition.
Weeks of torment, fighting, looking for reasons to pick up rather than reasons not to...
Talk about a lonely place...
You're still carrying the message Bob, even now, as you're face to face with what seems the ugly, vulnerable truth about our condition.
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