After reading a lot of these posts,
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Thank you all. Though I do not know how I could tell most of it here or definitely right now. I might just change this to an area for me to rant & ask questions while I get things sorted out a little better.
I'm just trying to get on my feet again and I'm still a little disheveled with body, mind, spirit, home, life, etc. lol. Everyone seems so polite and sober here. I definitely need to be expressing myself to someone, but forgive me if I'm still a little random & mood-swingy for a few & throw in that I desperately need to quit smoking ASAP and it will be a fun week. Yeah, just coming off a 10 day binge.
It has produced some good results just hearing from people here though. I am very new here, just found this site 3 days ago. A good friend wants me to start attending meetings everyday, but it's been really cold, I'm still sobering up & this site has been a fill in for now.
I'm just trying to get on my feet again and I'm still a little disheveled with body, mind, spirit, home, life, etc. lol. Everyone seems so polite and sober here. I definitely need to be expressing myself to someone, but forgive me if I'm still a little random & mood-swingy for a few & throw in that I desperately need to quit smoking ASAP and it will be a fun week. Yeah, just coming off a 10 day binge.
It has produced some good results just hearing from people here though. I am very new here, just found this site 3 days ago. A good friend wants me to start attending meetings everyday, but it's been really cold, I'm still sobering up & this site has been a fill in for now.
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there is a quote from an article i read a while back that would give me some relief in daily activities, that says:
"If our daily pursuits don’t allow us to express something deep within our personality, we end up feeling empty, depressed or deprived. And these abiding feelings of discontent are typically what drive us toward unhealthy substances, activities and relationships."
I realize it doesn't sum it all up, but it's with some of that spirit that I may have to just ramble away on this thread and work things out as I go.
For now, I may need to be less concerned with having others understanding me and more concerned with finding well-being.
It may be a little rocky at first or not, dunno.
In another thread someone was mentioning that maybe they 'just miss Terminally Unique'. at the time i misread that and thought about it, i loved that quote. i can identify myself with just missing terminally unique. though, it seems to work best when i am 99% terminally unique.
i didn't realize it was a member's name at the time and have not read any of their posts, but the quote is worth me remembering.
i may add some other posts that i've recently posted, or other quotes, that had more to do with me here, so i can start talking more about myself here, regardless of if anyone reads this, it's giving me some accountability.
i found when i went back to lurking and not posting, this website was becoming too dreamy and less effective, for me. i'm currently not really interacting much with anyone, so i'm using this to help pull myself back up.
thanks
blah, blah, blah....
and yes, i do have plenty of tragic stories as the result of my alcohol use over the last 10-20 years, just not sure when i'll get in to that, i'm sure that will come out at some point.
"If our daily pursuits don’t allow us to express something deep within our personality, we end up feeling empty, depressed or deprived. And these abiding feelings of discontent are typically what drive us toward unhealthy substances, activities and relationships."
I realize it doesn't sum it all up, but it's with some of that spirit that I may have to just ramble away on this thread and work things out as I go.
For now, I may need to be less concerned with having others understanding me and more concerned with finding well-being.
It may be a little rocky at first or not, dunno.
In another thread someone was mentioning that maybe they 'just miss Terminally Unique'. at the time i misread that and thought about it, i loved that quote. i can identify myself with just missing terminally unique. though, it seems to work best when i am 99% terminally unique.
i didn't realize it was a member's name at the time and have not read any of their posts, but the quote is worth me remembering.
i may add some other posts that i've recently posted, or other quotes, that had more to do with me here, so i can start talking more about myself here, regardless of if anyone reads this, it's giving me some accountability.
i found when i went back to lurking and not posting, this website was becoming too dreamy and less effective, for me. i'm currently not really interacting much with anyone, so i'm using this to help pull myself back up.
thanks
blah, blah, blah....
and yes, i do have plenty of tragic stories as the result of my alcohol use over the last 10-20 years, just not sure when i'll get in to that, i'm sure that will come out at some point.
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