Guess What?
A Little Wingy
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 923
Guess What? If I CAN DO THIS
So CAN YOU
SR is a gift handed to you
The knowledge it holds
The understanding
No judging
THE LOVE
Let it help you.
Roll up those sleeves
We've got some work to do.
Make it a FUN job.
Today I celebrate another beautiful month of sobriety.
5 Months 9 Days 14 Minutes
And
12993297 Sober Heartbeats
What I've done to achieve this.
I use a self help program, daily
I start my morning off, meditating.
I dance for half an hour, ok that might look sorta odd
at 5ish am
. But I don't care, it sets me up
for a good day.
I make it a conscious effort to be HAPPY
To be ENTHUSIASTIC with life.
I LET GO of what used to eat away at me.
I said thanks, and good bye to it.
I wrote a letter to my addiction at the beginning of this.
I don't listen to anyone who tries to sway my thinking.
I don't need to label myself. What I tell myself today is
I have a life threatening problem....THAT ONCE HAD ME
I use mantras, at first I used them daily,
SCREAMING them out if I had to. (It works)
I eat better, drink a ton of water, lemon water, green tea.
I walk a lot. I make it a point to walk over 10,000 steps a day.
Dancing for half an hour puts me up to over 3,000 steps.
I have no room for negative thoughts, because that's all they are
IS THOUGHTS
I feel so good today. I was missing out on LIFE, not anymore.
I'm enrolling in a photography class next month.
I find so much peace and joy with nature.
I take my camera with me while I walk.
My higher power is with me all the time
I can feel it so strong today. I work hard
with that source.
My spirit is FREE today.
Positive thoughts all the way.
Once again, "If I can do this."
YOU CAN TOO
Last I heard, "No one ever injured their eyesight,
Looking on the BRIGHT side of life." Don't take yourself
so serious. No one else does.
So CAN YOU
SR is a gift handed to you
The knowledge it holds
The understanding
No judging
THE LOVE
Let it help you.
Roll up those sleeves
We've got some work to do.
Make it a FUN job.
Today I celebrate another beautiful month of sobriety.
5 Months 9 Days 14 Minutes
And
12993297 Sober Heartbeats
What I've done to achieve this.
I use a self help program, daily
I start my morning off, meditating.
I dance for half an hour, ok that might look sorta odd
at 5ish am
. But I don't care, it sets me upfor a good day.
I make it a conscious effort to be HAPPY
To be ENTHUSIASTIC with life.
I LET GO of what used to eat away at me.
I said thanks, and good bye to it.
I wrote a letter to my addiction at the beginning of this.
I don't listen to anyone who tries to sway my thinking.
I don't need to label myself. What I tell myself today is
I have a life threatening problem....THAT ONCE HAD ME
I use mantras, at first I used them daily,
SCREAMING them out if I had to. (It works)
I eat better, drink a ton of water, lemon water, green tea.
I walk a lot. I make it a point to walk over 10,000 steps a day.
Dancing for half an hour puts me up to over 3,000 steps.
I have no room for negative thoughts, because that's all they are
IS THOUGHTS
I feel so good today. I was missing out on LIFE, not anymore.
I'm enrolling in a photography class next month.
I find so much peace and joy with nature.
I take my camera with me while I walk.
My higher power is with me all the time
I can feel it so strong today. I work hard
with that source.
My spirit is FREE today.
Positive thoughts all the way.
Once again, "If I can do this."
YOU CAN TOO
Last I heard, "No one ever injured their eyesight,
Looking on the BRIGHT side of life." Don't take yourself
so serious. No one else does.
A picture I took last summer.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Sing-Along
This song should make you smile.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Sing-Along
This song should make you smile.
A Little Wingy
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 923
Adding this, in hopes it might, inspire you to write a Good Bye letter too 
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I had an idea, some time back, which has helped me, and hope it helps others.
I was going to write this out of ANGER, until I had a light bulb moment. So here we go.
To A Dear Old Friend
My dear old friend, the first time you came into my life, I think I was the tender age of 12-13. That was around the time, I had had a bomb dropped into my lap, and no one talked about it, and no one tried to explain why I was feeling the way I was. Then one night, I found you in a room on the floor, sitting there minding your own business. Something told me to pick you up, open the bottle you resided in, and to take 1 huge drink. I was so delighted with you, I chose to take another huge drink. Whoa!! You made me feel really good, but then panic snuck in, I thought if I got caught, I'd be in a whole lot of trouble. So being the bright one that I was, I filled your bottle with some water, to make sure no one noticed you had went down, during the night.
My dear old friend, you came back into my life slowly with people I would hang out with. It was okay, I wasn't abusing you, but I did love how you made me feel, the small amounts I consumed.
My dear old friend, you entered my life at the age of 18, raging with fury. It was the lowest of low for me. I met someone who would help to bring you fully into my life. I soon learned how to abuse you. I used to blame you for abusing me. I was so happy you took my pain away, I didn't have to think about things, I didn't know how to deal with. I had no one to talk to about my pain, and there you were, always willing and able to help me. I would abuse you so bad, that I couldn't remember a lot of what, I'd done or said. But the things that I did remember, I HATED myself for, and swore over and over and over again, I was done with you. I was 100% positive many times, that our friendship was over for good. But it seems I needed you for decades.
My dear old friend, you know what happened during those years, you
know why I abused you, and I'm sorry for that. I know you didn't mean to hurt me, you were meant to be enjoyed, by having one or two drinks of you. I blamed you for making me so sick, for making me make bad choices, for making me want to end my life. I used to think you were a monster. Please forgive me.
As of this day, my dear old friend, we have to part ways, forever. I have 20 precious days of not abusing you, and I will continue to let those days build up. I know you will always be close by, hoping to continue our friendship, but I can't do it anymore. I have to LET YOU GO, FOR GOOD. I will get stronger as time goes by, and one day you'll be a faded memory to me.
I'm slowing, learning about my NEW LIFE, I've been so stuck with life having abused you, and wasted so much of it. No more.
Good bye Dear Old Friend,
I have a lot of work to do.
10-29-13
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I had an idea, some time back, which has helped me, and hope it helps others.
I was going to write this out of ANGER, until I had a light bulb moment. So here we go.
To A Dear Old Friend
My dear old friend, the first time you came into my life, I think I was the tender age of 12-13. That was around the time, I had had a bomb dropped into my lap, and no one talked about it, and no one tried to explain why I was feeling the way I was. Then one night, I found you in a room on the floor, sitting there minding your own business. Something told me to pick you up, open the bottle you resided in, and to take 1 huge drink. I was so delighted with you, I chose to take another huge drink. Whoa!! You made me feel really good, but then panic snuck in, I thought if I got caught, I'd be in a whole lot of trouble. So being the bright one that I was, I filled your bottle with some water, to make sure no one noticed you had went down, during the night.
My dear old friend, you came back into my life slowly with people I would hang out with. It was okay, I wasn't abusing you, but I did love how you made me feel, the small amounts I consumed.
My dear old friend, you entered my life at the age of 18, raging with fury. It was the lowest of low for me. I met someone who would help to bring you fully into my life. I soon learned how to abuse you. I used to blame you for abusing me. I was so happy you took my pain away, I didn't have to think about things, I didn't know how to deal with. I had no one to talk to about my pain, and there you were, always willing and able to help me. I would abuse you so bad, that I couldn't remember a lot of what, I'd done or said. But the things that I did remember, I HATED myself for, and swore over and over and over again, I was done with you. I was 100% positive many times, that our friendship was over for good. But it seems I needed you for decades.
My dear old friend, you know what happened during those years, you
know why I abused you, and I'm sorry for that. I know you didn't mean to hurt me, you were meant to be enjoyed, by having one or two drinks of you. I blamed you for making me so sick, for making me make bad choices, for making me want to end my life. I used to think you were a monster. Please forgive me.
As of this day, my dear old friend, we have to part ways, forever. I have 20 precious days of not abusing you, and I will continue to let those days build up. I know you will always be close by, hoping to continue our friendship, but I can't do it anymore. I have to LET YOU GO, FOR GOOD. I will get stronger as time goes by, and one day you'll be a faded memory to me.
I'm slowing, learning about my NEW LIFE, I've been so stuck with life having abused you, and wasted so much of it. No more.
Good bye Dear Old Friend,
I have a lot of work to do.
10-29-13
A Little Wingy
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 923
Thanks. We pass on what we learn, in hopes it will help others.
Mags, it's taken me a lifetime to find peace (literally) I'll do whatever it takes to stay on the safer path.
We weren't put on this planet to be tormented and miserable all the time.
My life is far from perfect (whatever people perceive perfect to be) but it's my life, and life is a gift. I don't want to waste any more of it, with something that doesn't belong, nor needed. It's taken more then enough from me, like it has for all of us.
If you've not learned to let painful things go, you'll keep running around in circles, for a longgggg time. If you don't learn to accept things, that you can't change, you'll run around in circles.
Be careful, life is fragile.
Wishing you all the best.
Mags, it's taken me a lifetime to find peace (literally) I'll do whatever it takes to stay on the safer path.
We weren't put on this planet to be tormented and miserable all the time.
My life is far from perfect (whatever people perceive perfect to be) but it's my life, and life is a gift. I don't want to waste any more of it, with something that doesn't belong, nor needed. It's taken more then enough from me, like it has for all of us.
If you've not learned to let painful things go, you'll keep running around in circles, for a longgggg time. If you don't learn to accept things, that you can't change, you'll run around in circles.
Be careful, life is fragile.
Wishing you all the best.
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