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Old 11-17-2013, 08:03 PM
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When you get off the booze? Do you change your mind about drinking?
Believe it or not - yes - very much. And in a way that is hard to describe until you experience it. Sobriety is not just about leaving alcohol behind, it's about what comes next - a whole new way of living in a dimension you didn't previously know existed.

It's worth it.
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Old 11-17-2013, 08:30 PM
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Sobriety is a strange and wonderful place. I had 1 thing I was gonna get done today, didn't get it done. In drinking days that would have been due to drinking and sleeping and not caring. After that would have come guilt, that I did nothing, zero, failed. After that, more booze to drown the guilt.

Today I simply got caught up in a lot of other productive things that did get done, the other thing can wait, it wasn't critical because it hadn't been avoided for 6 months already, no guilt to drown. Okay, whoops, wasn't quite on track, need to do better on sidetracking... but at least I wasn't off on planet nowhere.
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Old 11-18-2013, 03:07 AM
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I think you're going to get an unanimous raise of hands here on people who lovED drinking. It's realizing all that you don't live about drinking that you need to channel to get you going. This journey has so many twists and turns but the final destination is better the. Any buzz you'll get from drinking.

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Old 11-18-2013, 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by AlefVavResh View Post
Sobriety is not just about leaving alcohol behind, it's about what comes next - a whole new way of living in a dimension you didn't previously know existed.
This is absolutely genius and so on point!
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Old 11-18-2013, 04:51 AM
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Day 52 here- I have loved every single one of those 52 days- evenm the ones where I was sweating, pulse racing, throwing up- SO MUCH MORE than the thousands before them drunk and wasted and WASTING my life. Please try it- it is so worth while.

And WELCOME!
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Old 11-18-2013, 05:32 AM
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On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest 1881–1959

How much grit do you think you’ve got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
You may talk of pluck; it’s an easy word,
And where’er you go it is often heard;
But can you tell to a jot or guess
Just how much courage you now possess?


You may stand to trouble and keep your grin,
But have you tackled self-discipline?
Have you ever issued commands to you
To quit the things that you like to do,
And then, when tempted and sorely swayed,
Those rigid orders have you obeyed?


Don’t boast of your grit till you’ve tried it out,
Nor prate to men of your courage stout,
For it’s easy enough to retain a grin
In the face of a fight there’s a chance to win,
But the sort of grit that is good to own
Is the stuff you need when you’re all alone.


How much grit do you think you’ve got?
Can you turn from joys that you like a lot?
Have you ever tested yourself to know
How far with yourself your will can go?
If you want to know if you have grit,
Just pick out a joy that you like, and quit.


It’s bully sport and it’s open fight;
It will keep you busy both day and night;
For the toughest kind of a game you’ll find
Is to make your body obey your mind.
And you never will know what is meant by grit
Unless there’s something you’ve tried to quit.
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