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A tale of two lives

Old 08-07-2012, 05:38 AM
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A tale of two lives

The darkness of my life was prevalent in everything about me. When people met me there was a heaviness to my words. To my whole being.

What we convey with our posture, looks, and even movements is more than our words. And everything about me said I was beaten down. Lost. Sad.

I had no idea of this. I was clueless. I thought I had a good thing going.

So why so lost? What else? I drank 12 - 18 drinks a day by recent calculations. I was popular at the bar (big tipper) so I got doubles as a normal.

I did drugs every weekend. Coke and crack. That started to happen more and more and now during the week.

I was conscious through it all. I saw each moment in black and white, but I saw it. The were no in-betweens.

Each time I called my dealer. Each walk across to the bar. I felt each with a searing stab down to the bone. Yet I was helpless to help myself.

What changed?

I still cannot tell you how i went from being locked in my body to get to here. I am still not sure where here is but I know it not there.

I tried many times to jump start things. Went to two and half rehabs. The half because I thought I knew better and told them off. I was arrogant about my drinking. I knew more about me than they did. Sadly that was not true. I have come to understand I knew far less.

In fact I have humbled myself to accept that even as I type this that I still know far less.

Maybe that's what changed?

I can't call it being humble about drinking. That's not it. It's something more.

AAers call it surrender. AVRT folk call it a big plan.

Labels labels labels... Whatever it is it's the basic ingredient to a better life.

My life now? 100 times better. But that's not good enough. I still slip and I want to put that last nail in. Because then I know things will again multiple to a 1000 times better.

Not that I will have all rainbows and puppies. Not that I don't like either. But I will have confidence in myself. Something I am not sure I ever had in the areas that mattered.

Being a drunk has provided me with a deep appreciation for myself and my life. It's odd that it should be so paradoxical but it is.

I have so far yet to go. SR has helped me a lot... More than anything.

I see so many who are where I was.

I see so many where I want to be.

I see me in both places. I never want to lose that. I won't appreciate anything if I do.
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