TOPIC: Humility Verses Cockiness
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Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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TOPIC: Humility Verses Cockiness
Hi. Im Sharon. I am An Alcoholic.
By the grace of my Higher Power
and people like you here in SR
I haven't found it necessary to
pick up a drink of alcohol since
8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
I come here to soberrecovery
with humility and not cockiness.
To humble myself. To share
my knowledge of what I learned
over the years of how I've
stayed sober for 20 yrs.
Humbling myself to walk
beside you each day as we
go thru this sober journey
together.
If I came here with an ounce
of cockiness just because I
have more time sober than
you, then I will surely get full
of myself and possibly return
to the drink.
I am no different from many
of you here other than being
a woman if you are a man.
Im not rich or famous. I don't
have a mansion and I don't drive
a Cadillac.
I came from a middle class
family of 6. 4 kids, 2 working
parents with one that was sick
with her own demons. Alcohol,
prescription meds and a bad
childhood.
Out of those 4 kids I was
physically and verbally abused
at her hands.
Fastforward....I stayed married
for 25 yrs, raised 2 awesome
kids, divorsed and remarried
coming up on 2 yrs. Valentine's
Day.
7 yrs into my first marriage i
entered rehab by family invention.
28 day stay, 6 week aftercare.
I took those tools and knowledge
that was handed to me and applied
it to my everyday life.
Many changes over the past
20 yrs and here I am humbling
myself to help those still suffering
or struggling with addiction.
All I have today to share with
you is my knowldge of how I
stayed sober for 20 yrs and how
i live my life each day.
No fluff. Just the plain honest
truth.
I don't want to be placed on
a pedistal or on a higher
plateform than you. All I
want is to walk or sit beside
you in friendship helping
each other stay sober or
clean.
In doing so I remain humble
and not cockie.
By the grace of my Higher Power
and people like you here in SR
I haven't found it necessary to
pick up a drink of alcohol since
8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
I come here to soberrecovery
with humility and not cockiness.
To humble myself. To share
my knowledge of what I learned
over the years of how I've
stayed sober for 20 yrs.
Humbling myself to walk
beside you each day as we
go thru this sober journey
together.
If I came here with an ounce
of cockiness just because I
have more time sober than
you, then I will surely get full
of myself and possibly return
to the drink.
I am no different from many
of you here other than being
a woman if you are a man.
Im not rich or famous. I don't
have a mansion and I don't drive
a Cadillac.
I came from a middle class
family of 6. 4 kids, 2 working
parents with one that was sick
with her own demons. Alcohol,
prescription meds and a bad
childhood.
Out of those 4 kids I was
physically and verbally abused
at her hands.
Fastforward....I stayed married
for 25 yrs, raised 2 awesome
kids, divorsed and remarried
coming up on 2 yrs. Valentine's
Day.
7 yrs into my first marriage i
entered rehab by family invention.
28 day stay, 6 week aftercare.
I took those tools and knowledge
that was handed to me and applied
it to my everyday life.
Many changes over the past
20 yrs and here I am humbling
myself to help those still suffering
or struggling with addiction.
All I have today to share with
you is my knowldge of how I
stayed sober for 20 yrs and how
i live my life each day.
No fluff. Just the plain honest
truth.
I don't want to be placed on
a pedistal or on a higher
plateform than you. All I
want is to walk or sit beside
you in friendship helping
each other stay sober or
clean.
In doing so I remain humble
and not cockie.
Laozi Old Man
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Detroit, MI
Posts: 6,665
Some days I am humble, some days I'm not.
I don't sit around trying to be humble.
I try to be spiritually fit ODAAT.
When I succeed, I am usually humble, grateful and benevolent.
However, it is not by trying that I become humble.
Humility rides on the coat-tails of spiritual fitness.
"Sought after virtue is not true virtue"
(Lao Tzu)
I don't sit around trying to be humble.
I try to be spiritually fit ODAAT.
When I succeed, I am usually humble, grateful and benevolent.
However, it is not by trying that I become humble.
Humility rides on the coat-tails of spiritual fitness.
"Sought after virtue is not true virtue"
(Lao Tzu)
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