4 Months Sober
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Indianapolis, IN
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4 Months Sober
Hey all! Today I have 4 months sober. I'm at that point where I'm counting months instead of days - so that's kind of cool. I've seen such a difference in my life since stopping drinking the poison at high doses and getting into recovery. Everything that I was told by you people and the folks at AA has come true.
I still have problems, but the quality of my problems is much better than what it used to be.
I remember when I couldn't get though one day without drinking and looked at people with 30 or 90 days or 6 months, or years, and I thought "HOW IN THE HELL CAN THEY DO IT"! I've learned that it truly is one day at a time. There's really nothing more or nothing less. There is no magic bullet....
The progress I've made has been two steps forward, one back. Then three steps forward, then two back, then no steps forward for weeks, then a huge jump forward, and forward, and forward, then maybe one back, etc... The key is I seem to continually be making progress. I just didn't lead that kind of life when drinking. I always seemed to get in my own way, often at the worst possible times. Today, I am such a better friend to myself than I used to be. I don't "have thing thing beat". Instead, I am no longer fighting it.
Alcohol - you win! I lose! No problem. I have ceased to look to you as a solution to my life's problems. We win, by losing.... sounds crazy, but it's true. There is so much power in surrender.
The one thing I seem to have to day is clarity and peacefullness. Something I NEVER HAD when drinking.
I wish you all the best and I hope we all can go to bed sober tonight!!!!
I still have problems, but the quality of my problems is much better than what it used to be.
I remember when I couldn't get though one day without drinking and looked at people with 30 or 90 days or 6 months, or years, and I thought "HOW IN THE HELL CAN THEY DO IT"! I've learned that it truly is one day at a time. There's really nothing more or nothing less. There is no magic bullet....
The progress I've made has been two steps forward, one back. Then three steps forward, then two back, then no steps forward for weeks, then a huge jump forward, and forward, and forward, then maybe one back, etc... The key is I seem to continually be making progress. I just didn't lead that kind of life when drinking. I always seemed to get in my own way, often at the worst possible times. Today, I am such a better friend to myself than I used to be. I don't "have thing thing beat". Instead, I am no longer fighting it.
Alcohol - you win! I lose! No problem. I have ceased to look to you as a solution to my life's problems. We win, by losing.... sounds crazy, but it's true. There is so much power in surrender.
The one thing I seem to have to day is clarity and peacefullness. Something I NEVER HAD when drinking.
I wish you all the best and I hope we all can go to bed sober tonight!!!!
Me too.
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Congratulations Reggie. It is just awesome the sense of calm you (we) have sober and life is so much more interesting to live in.
Four months...pretty soon half a year...then a year....!! Wow.
I'm still counting days...but at least I'm still counting! Great Job.
Four months...pretty soon half a year...then a year....!! Wow.
I'm still counting days...but at least I'm still counting! Great Job.
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Congratulations, reggie!! Thanks for the inspiring post, too - you always say the best stuff!
This one caught my attention:
Oh how true that was for me!
This one caught my attention:
I always seemed to get in my own way, often at the worst possible times.
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