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Grateful to be free
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Arizona
Posts: 3,680
In the early days of sobriety, I tried to keep a sense of humor about things, because it really really is an absurd and surreal time.
The line from the Monty Python show used to pop into my mind all the time "and now for something completely different..." like me doing something other than drink and drug.
Like, I feel like crap so I am going to put on some music and sing real loud, or go to a meeting of other pathetic losers (that was how it felt back then) or sit in a corner and do that thing where you make your lips go up and down like a motor boat with your finger...or do a LOT of word search puzzles.
go to the zoo, make cookies and hand them out to my friends, watch funny cat videos on youtube...life was absurd anyway....
glad you are on board. it gets better.
The line from the Monty Python show used to pop into my mind all the time "and now for something completely different..." like me doing something other than drink and drug.
Like, I feel like crap so I am going to put on some music and sing real loud, or go to a meeting of other pathetic losers (that was how it felt back then) or sit in a corner and do that thing where you make your lips go up and down like a motor boat with your finger...or do a LOT of word search puzzles.
go to the zoo, make cookies and hand them out to my friends, watch funny cat videos on youtube...life was absurd anyway....
glad you are on board. it gets better.
Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 3,062
Glad you are back. I found that once I truly admitted that I could not drink alcohol and believed that my life was much better, easier, peaceful without it; I don't have to think about the "first" days again.
Trudging the Road
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: western New York, USA
Posts: 117
Originally Posted by jlschultz 
I'm afraid I can't pull it off. Longest I went was 21 days.
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 211,444
Welcome to SR jschultz 
Sometimes we just need to tweak our plan a little.
Did you have any support in those 21 days? what changes did you make in your life?
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Originally Posted by jlschultz
I'm afraid I can't pull it off. Longest I went was 21 days.
Did you have any support in those 21 days? what changes did you make in your life?
D
Hears The Voice
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Unshackled
Posts: 7,901
Originally Posted by jlschultz
I'm afraid I can't pull it off. Longest I went was 21 days.
Until I went 6 days.
Until I went 14 days
Until I went 42 days
Until I went...
Welcome back to the fight of your life.
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