Wichitalineman has 18 moths sober!! This is just the beginning...
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Wichitalineman has 18 moths sober!! This is just the beginning...
Hey everyone!
Well, what can I say but *WOW*! 18 months have FLOWN by and I have been sober the ENTIRE time! It almost seems like I am watching a movie, starring someone else who has it totally together and is able to stand down the alcohol urges, invites, copious advertising and self doubting ... but amazingly, I am the screenwriter, the director AND have landed the starring role... _how_ can this be?!?!
A lot of people ask me how I feel now that I don't drink. Don't I miss "being social"? Don't I miss going out? I compare and contrast my life then and now. Then, I was hungover a lot, spending WAY too much $$$ on booze, getting it done at work and in life in general, but in _no way_ living up to my potential. Now, I am firing on all cylinders: I am fully present in all of my relationships, work is still something I have to deal with and do but it's WAY easier to navigate the hurdles, and my creative outlets (which are, it turns out, the REAL source of happiness and power in my life!) have never been more in focus or stronger!
I can't think of a single decision I have made in my life that has had such a profound and _immediate_ effect on my life... and in a POSITIVE way, I should add!!
I can't lie: this has been a huge challenge and a huge change. It was harder at first, though it's absolutely gotten easier as the days, weeks and months have flown by. I now take incredible pride at walking past my old haunts, looking in the windows, and truly being on the "other side". I have the power to say no, and I am exercising it!
Things that have been CRITICAL in my success:
1.) SOBER RECOVERY!!!
2.) Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins; **HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!**
3.) John Coltrane's music
4.) My bicycle; just some kind of exercise. It REALLY helped me.
I posted a whole lot more in 2010 than this year; since getting sober, I moved from London to Seattle, went back to university, exercised WAY more, played music WAY more, and have been busier than ever! I still read SR almost daily but I rarely get a chance to post these days; I am a victim of the success that sobriety brings! Haha, not really the "victim"... but the ARCHITECT of my new sober life and the happiness/success that it brings! And anyone reading this can be the architect of their own life as well!
A great quote I came across here at SR: It isn't always easy, but it is _ALWAYS_ worth it!
Thank you to everyone at SR!!! You have ALL played a role in my sobriety and I couldn't do it with you! Have a safe, sane and SOBER weekend all! THANK YOU SR!!
Cheers!
//_wlx
Well, what can I say but *WOW*! 18 months have FLOWN by and I have been sober the ENTIRE time! It almost seems like I am watching a movie, starring someone else who has it totally together and is able to stand down the alcohol urges, invites, copious advertising and self doubting ... but amazingly, I am the screenwriter, the director AND have landed the starring role... _how_ can this be?!?!
A lot of people ask me how I feel now that I don't drink. Don't I miss "being social"? Don't I miss going out? I compare and contrast my life then and now. Then, I was hungover a lot, spending WAY too much $$$ on booze, getting it done at work and in life in general, but in _no way_ living up to my potential. Now, I am firing on all cylinders: I am fully present in all of my relationships, work is still something I have to deal with and do but it's WAY easier to navigate the hurdles, and my creative outlets (which are, it turns out, the REAL source of happiness and power in my life!) have never been more in focus or stronger!
I can't think of a single decision I have made in my life that has had such a profound and _immediate_ effect on my life... and in a POSITIVE way, I should add!!
I can't lie: this has been a huge challenge and a huge change. It was harder at first, though it's absolutely gotten easier as the days, weeks and months have flown by. I now take incredible pride at walking past my old haunts, looking in the windows, and truly being on the "other side". I have the power to say no, and I am exercising it!
Things that have been CRITICAL in my success:
1.) SOBER RECOVERY!!!
2.) Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins; **HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!**
3.) John Coltrane's music
4.) My bicycle; just some kind of exercise. It REALLY helped me.
I posted a whole lot more in 2010 than this year; since getting sober, I moved from London to Seattle, went back to university, exercised WAY more, played music WAY more, and have been busier than ever! I still read SR almost daily but I rarely get a chance to post these days; I am a victim of the success that sobriety brings! Haha, not really the "victim"... but the ARCHITECT of my new sober life and the happiness/success that it brings! And anyone reading this can be the architect of their own life as well!
A great quote I came across here at SR: It isn't always easy, but it is _ALWAYS_ worth it!
Thank you to everyone at SR!!! You have ALL played a role in my sobriety and I couldn't do it with you! Have a safe, sane and SOBER weekend all! THANK YOU SR!!
Cheers!
//_wlx
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[quote-]I am the screenwriter, the director AND have landed the starring role... _how_ can this be?!?![/quote]
Yup being free from addictions is just as sweet as being free from the nonsense that would bind you a useless ideology. Capturing your freedom to egotism...silly but you are truly free.
Yup being free from addictions is just as sweet as being free from the nonsense that would bind you a useless ideology. Capturing your freedom to egotism...silly but you are truly free.
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Thanks everyone!!
I'd also like to mention that _in addition_ to having **18 sober MOTHS**, I myself have also been sober for **18 MONTHS**.
The moths are fine are are currently posted at my moth rescue site.
Thanks so much everyone!!
I'd also like to mention that _in addition_ to having **18 sober MOTHS**, I myself have also been sober for **18 MONTHS**.
The moths are fine are are currently posted at my moth rescue site.
Thanks so much everyone!!
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