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Old 08-28-2009, 09:16 AM
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Sobriety is Such a Blessing and Joy

Awoke again this morning instead of coming to. Got showered and dressed without throwing up or shaking. Ate breakfast on a stomach that knows hunger instead of indigestion. Came to work instead of calling in sick or not calling in at all. Am productive instead of being a zombie. I can't describe how much more fulfilling my life is sober instead of drunk. Everything, even the hard times, are a gift. e.e. cummings put it well for me.

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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Old 08-28-2009, 09:23 AM
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So very true, sounds to me like you have an attitude of gratitude! Thanks for your share.
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Old 08-28-2009, 09:26 AM
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Awesome share Fitz and I too, love E.E. Cummings. Nice post.
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Old 08-28-2009, 09:27 AM
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Great post, Fizz!

I am feeling a lot of gratitude, too!
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Old 08-28-2009, 10:44 AM
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Good for you Fitz, sober is definitly the way to live!
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Old 08-28-2009, 11:29 AM
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Indeed. I think that's one plus about being an alcoholic, is that we can feel like a million bucks just being sober.
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Old 08-28-2009, 11:33 AM
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Thanks 4 sharing. Needed 2 hear this today, gives me strength.
Stay strong.
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Old 08-28-2009, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by MycoolFitz View Post
I can't describe how much more fulfilling my life is sober instead of drunk. Everything, even the hard times, are a gift.
There is a old Buddhist saying:

"In this life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional"

Most of my life I thought this was pure Bull****.

Now I have MORE material problems then ever before. To a third party observer it must look like suffering. But from my "new attitude", I see it as diamonds in the rough:

"Adversity is the soil that the soul grows best in"
- Richard Paul Evens
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Old 08-28-2009, 12:18 PM
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The Buddha also spoke, after obtaining Enlightenment:

"Some people never find it, some only pretend
But me, hell, I just want to live happily ever after
Every now and then
Every now and then" Translation Hon. Jimmy Buffett Rinpoche
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Old 08-28-2009, 01:38 PM
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I can't do this my whole life, but day by day i can. Today I will not drink, for today.
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