Acceptance
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Acceptance
Well on my 45th day sober I feel lucky to accept the fact that I cannot drink alcohol. For the past few days I have been drinking four litres of water a day, and I think my body has been dehydrated for a long time. The moon over the ocean was beautiful earlier, and I felt grateful to be able to live and experience this planet. My sobriety is a great gift to give myself.
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Originally Posted by Acheleus 
The moon over the ocean was beautiful earlier, and I felt grateful to be able to live and experience this planet. My sobriety is a great gift to give myself.
Great post, Acheleus. I'm glad your day was a good one. Must be nice to be able to look out and see the ocean! I'm thousands of miles from it.
And congrats on forty five days sober! 
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Those threads like yours really make my day.
When I think about it, we are accepting a life sentence. Not a death sentence like cancer / 3 months to live. So why is it so hard to accept in the beginning? I think we deep down accept it, it's our AV that's getting the death sentence.
When I think about it, we are accepting a life sentence. Not a death sentence like cancer / 3 months to live. So why is it so hard to accept in the beginning? I think we deep down accept it, it's our AV that's getting the death sentence.
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Good goin' there, Acheleus. Sobriety truly is a gift we give ourselves.
Please allow me to offer you this. I see many of us state 'I can't drink anymore'. It comes, I think, from a feeling that some outside limitation that has been placed upon us, and because of that, it is a hardship, not willingly accepted. We twist and squirm under this, and hope that the day will come when this limitation can be removed.
Instead, I offer a much stronger position. 'I won't drink anymore'. This places us in control, making an active choice instead of merely responding to some outside force. We can even view it as a choice that gives us something wonderful, something great, that we cannot have otherwise. It gives us something that we deserve to have. It gives us freedom.
Please allow me to offer you this. I see many of us state 'I can't drink anymore'. It comes, I think, from a feeling that some outside limitation that has been placed upon us, and because of that, it is a hardship, not willingly accepted. We twist and squirm under this, and hope that the day will come when this limitation can be removed.
Instead, I offer a much stronger position. 'I won't drink anymore'. This places us in control, making an active choice instead of merely responding to some outside force. We can even view it as a choice that gives us something wonderful, something great, that we cannot have otherwise. It gives us something that we deserve to have. It gives us freedom.
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Well no tree this year, and no christmas dinner. Just one parent and I do not even feel like it is christmas. The urge to drink is really strong right now, but I am going to fight. Reality is hard to deal with. Oh well maybe next year will be worse
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