What is there to miss ?
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What is there to miss ?
Chatting to a fellow November 15 class mate at the weekend and both of us are just coming upto the end of the first year.
It was regarding him being laid up with a bug that he said was reminiscent of a hangover and not something he missed.
My thoughts were that it was crazy to think we used to make ourselves feel like death on such a regular basis - the hangovers were generally cleared by going again but until the fog cleared properly thro real sobriety in essence the whole thing was just one long episode of poisoning ourselves / recovery / repeat - so glad that's no longer the case.
Made me realise that if that is what I'm really missing then I politely say thanks but no thanks - not something I miss at all.
Free from poisoning my mind and body nowadays and not a chance I would want to return to the old ways, life is much calmer now all the chaos has stopped.
Some days are better than others of course but it really does feel so worth all the effort - for anyone just starting out or struggling please please stick with it you really are doing the best thing ever and it truly does get better given chance.
It was regarding him being laid up with a bug that he said was reminiscent of a hangover and not something he missed.
My thoughts were that it was crazy to think we used to make ourselves feel like death on such a regular basis - the hangovers were generally cleared by going again but until the fog cleared properly thro real sobriety in essence the whole thing was just one long episode of poisoning ourselves / recovery / repeat - so glad that's no longer the case.
Made me realise that if that is what I'm really missing then I politely say thanks but no thanks - not something I miss at all.
Free from poisoning my mind and body nowadays and not a chance I would want to return to the old ways, life is much calmer now all the chaos has stopped.
Some days are better than others of course but it really does feel so worth all the effort - for anyone just starting out or struggling please please stick with it you really are doing the best thing ever and it truly does get better given chance.
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Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary!
I never realized how yucky I felt almost all the time until I stopped poisoning myself. I had kind of gotten used to feeling hungover or at least slightly hungover almost every day. Now, if I don't feel good, I know I might actually be ill. And I take way better care of myself in general, because I want to feel my best physically every day for the rest of my life.
I never realized how yucky I felt almost all the time until I stopped poisoning myself. I had kind of gotten used to feeling hungover or at least slightly hungover almost every day. Now, if I don't feel good, I know I might actually be ill. And I take way better care of myself in general, because I want to feel my best physically every day for the rest of my life.
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Congrats on coming up on a year!
I'm constantly amazed at how the things I turned my nose up and found to be painfully boring are now the things that bring me so much joy.
That's sobriety in a nutshell, the ability to find appreciation in the simplest things in life and revel in them. I would have never thought it possible but it's truly living and it's so worth all the hard stuff in the beginning.
Anyone new, hang in there!
I'm constantly amazed at how the things I turned my nose up and found to be painfully boring are now the things that bring me so much joy.
That's sobriety in a nutshell, the ability to find appreciation in the simplest things in life and revel in them. I would have never thought it possible but it's truly living and it's so worth all the hard stuff in the beginning.
Anyone new, hang in there!
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Originally Posted by LadyBlue0527 
Congrats on coming up on a year!
I'm constantly amazed at how the things I turned my nose up and found to be painfully boring are now the things that bring me so much joy.
That's sobriety in a nutshell, the ability to find appreciation in the simplest things in life and revel in them. I would have never thought it possible but it's truly living and it's so worth all the hard stuff in the beginning.
Anyone new, hang in there!
I'm constantly amazed at how the things I turned my nose up and found to be painfully boring are now the things that bring me so much joy.
That's sobriety in a nutshell, the ability to find appreciation in the simplest things in life and revel in them. I would have never thought it possible but it's truly living and it's so worth all the hard stuff in the beginning.
Anyone new, hang in there!
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