Getting my old mind back
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Getting my old mind back
Over the last few days I've felt like a great fog has cleared. For a long time I was struggling to concentrate reading and music wasn't sounding as good to me without booze.
That's done a complete 180, I read The Old Man And The Sea this afternoon and listened to The Rolling Stones Some Girls (my favorite band) and danced with the sort of gusto which if filmed and placed online, would haunt me forever.
I enjoyed myself that much.
I can articulate my thoughts on these things much better and although it's scary and the depression and anxiety are very real, it feels like real life again.
That's done a complete 180, I read The Old Man And The Sea this afternoon and listened to The Rolling Stones Some Girls (my favorite band) and danced with the sort of gusto which if filmed and placed online, would haunt me forever.
I enjoyed myself that much.
I can articulate my thoughts on these things much better and although it's scary and the depression and anxiety are very real, it feels like real life again.
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Originally Posted by Thomasthetank 
danced with the sort of gusto which if filmed and placed online, would haunt me forever.
I enjoyed myself that much.
I enjoyed myself that much.
The Old Man and the Sea... one of my all time faves.
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Here's a quote from Old Man & The Sea:
“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
Just change Fish to Sobriety.
And Hemingway is a good model of how not to live.
Heavy drinking until the end of his life, constantly unhappy, changing partners, moving, leaving a trail of broken relationships in his wake, and a gift for finding the words to blame everything and everyone else for the problems his choices created.
“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
Just change Fish to Sobriety.
And Hemingway is a good model of how not to live.
Heavy drinking until the end of his life, constantly unhappy, changing partners, moving, leaving a trail of broken relationships in his wake, and a gift for finding the words to blame everything and everyone else for the problems his choices created.
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Originally Posted by AcceptingChange
And Hemingway is a good model of how not to live.
Heavy drinking until the end of his life, constantly unhappy, changing partners, moving, leaving a trail of broken relationships in his wake, and a gift for finding the words to blame everything and everyone else for the problems his choices created.
Funny how Jack Kerouac actually died from drink but doesn't have that same reputation (it least among people I've spoken to him about).
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I'm really glad you're feeling good.
A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls are my favourite Hemingway books. He was a tortured soul, but a brilliant writer. If you go to Key West, you will find several bars which use Hemingway as their claim to fame.
The only time in my life when I let reading slip way was during the three years I was drinking. As soon as I began to recover, I jumped back into the book world.
A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls are my favourite Hemingway books. He was a tortured soul, but a brilliant writer. If you go to Key West, you will find several bars which use Hemingway as their claim to fame.
The only time in my life when I let reading slip way was during the three years I was drinking. As soon as I began to recover, I jumped back into the book world.
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Originally Posted by Thomasthetank
But still, there's plenty of artists whose work I enjoy but as a person couldn't stand.
But anyway, The Old Man and the Sea is the perfect book to read when we're trying to stay sober day in and day out. It's a book about determination and not giving up and not listening to others who try to veer you off your chosen path. It's about staying on the course you decide is best regardless of the difficulties that come up.
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Originally Posted by Anna
The only time in my life when I let reading slip way was during the three years I was drinking. As soon as I began to recover, I jumped back into the book world.
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