Today I am Grateful For...Part 9
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Tiagf.. Being sober & doing something special for family and spending time with them and not wanting to have a drink and looking forward to sharing this with my new net work. Thank you all who take part.
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TIAG. For waking up and not having the taste of last night not knowing or what I did telling my self things have to change and thanks to my higher power and net work. I don't want to have that in my life. Amen Thanks every one
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Learning to take responsibility for myself-in thought, word and deed- so that (fingers crossed) it just becomes second nature.
Realizing today that it is easy to be kind, accepting and generous to those you love. The trick for me is to learn to show kindness, acceptance and generousity to those that are not so easy to be around. I want to get to the level of detachment and compassion to not forget those people are not just igniting my suffering but they are suffering too.
Grateful I won't tolerate abuse... but otherwise if a moment of real presence and listening help their suffering, then why shouldn't I give that if I can? (Rhetorical Qs to myself. Lol)
Learning to take responsibility for myself-in thought, word and deed- so that (fingers crossed) it just becomes second nature.
Realizing today that it is easy to be kind, accepting and generous to those you love. The trick for me is to learn to show kindness, acceptance and generousity to those that are not so easy to be around. I want to get to the level of detachment and compassion to not forget those people are not just igniting my suffering but they are suffering too.
Grateful I won't tolerate abuse... but otherwise if a moment of real presence and listening help their suffering, then why shouldn't I give that if I can? (Rhetorical Qs to myself. Lol)
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Today, ... I am grateful for
1) waking up still drunk and shaking on Satuday morning so that I couldn't go out till the afternoon and buy booze ... but it didn't matter right? cos its just the beginning of the weekend.
2) waking up still drunk and shaking on Sunday morning so that I couldn't go out till the afternoon and buy more booze ... but come on, if I go to bed early I'll be OK for work
3) waking up still drunk and shaking on Monday morning so that I couldn't go to work ... shouldn't have had that extra bottle of wine
4) waking up still drunk and shaking on Tuesday morning so that I couldn't go to work ... I only meant to have a four pack to ease me down, thought a bottle of wine seemed a good idea too, and then found myself stumbling back from the booze shop at 10:00 at night with a bottle of Vodka.
5) realizing what a total waste of space I was and going through 48 hours of rattling and shaking to get here on Thursday.
This is as close to the rocky bottom as I want to get.
So now I'm swimming to the surface and, believe me, I sure am grateful for that.
1) waking up still drunk and shaking on Satuday morning so that I couldn't go out till the afternoon and buy booze ... but it didn't matter right? cos its just the beginning of the weekend.
2) waking up still drunk and shaking on Sunday morning so that I couldn't go out till the afternoon and buy more booze ... but come on, if I go to bed early I'll be OK for work
3) waking up still drunk and shaking on Monday morning so that I couldn't go to work ... shouldn't have had that extra bottle of wine
4) waking up still drunk and shaking on Tuesday morning so that I couldn't go to work ... I only meant to have a four pack to ease me down, thought a bottle of wine seemed a good idea too, and then found myself stumbling back from the booze shop at 10:00 at night with a bottle of Vodka.
5) realizing what a total waste of space I was and going through 48 hours of rattling and shaking to get here on Thursday.
This is as close to the rocky bottom as I want to get.
So now I'm swimming to the surface and, believe me, I sure am grateful for that.
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