SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information - The 24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 36, All Are Welcome!

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United

Well I was just thinking about this and I was thinking how as alcoholics drinking
we thought we were a part of something but we were very much alone .

I know I was. I tried to be united to others through my drinking .

I was easily united to anyone who had a DUI like me or had been to jail
like me.

As my drinking got worse I sought companions who were worse off than me so I
could say "I am not that bad yet" At the end there were not to many people who
were worse off than me. I had a pretty low bottom.

I felt inferior to the normal people out there.

I did not feel Unity among the people I should have felt it with like my very own
family, my neighbors who lived normal lives, the Susie homemaker next door. .

What I feel with other alcoholics in SR is a common empathy for all who come
here.

I feel we are United because we have felt the same kind of pain, and I believe most
of us are desperate for a way out of that misery.

There is a special kind of magic that goes on in an AA meeting and here at SR.

There is something about the therapeutic value of one alcoholic/ addict talking to
another. No one else quite understands us and until we feel understood we feel
all alone and remain helpless and hopeless.

It is how AA began 2 alcoholics talking together and it seems to work
here at SR as well.

But support alone is not quite enough. Putting down the drink or drug is just the
beginning.

Recovery is about taking a deep look inside ourselves, a self examination of
our thoughts, actions and behaviors. The warped thinking that always led us to
the obsession to drink.

In AA they call it the 12 steps.

Whatever you call it, it has to be done and until it is done many will return to their
drinking and drugging ways.

Are we ready to face our real selves?

*Song For The Day - Rock Around The Clock - From Las Vegas

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