MesaMan has One Year Today!
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Colorado
Posts: 3,474
One Year - Head Clear
Oh Wow!
Thanks for the Congrats! I was just minding on own Business, doing my morning 'Check In' here. The stuff that Folks figger out when you put your quit date in your Signature Line, eh?-)
SR absolutely has been central and pivotal to my Recovery. I check in before firing up the Coffee Pot. I check in while in the Grocery Store Line. I check in while the Pooch runs around the Dog Park. At the end of the day, SR is not inanimate, of course. It's a Collective of great Folks, and very hard working Mods. Fellow Techies behind the Scenes. SR is the ultimate, flexible, mobile Basement Meeting Room to this ex-Ham Radio Geek. But, with my own uber-strong Coffee.-) I really enjoy, and take heed of, the many POVs here. I get, and nosh on, what I call 'Knowledge Nuggets' here daily without fail.
Early on last year, getting inspiration here like 'yah, just make it to one week'. 'Yah, things improve at a couple of weeks'. All those truisms rang true, and still ring true. Things 'turn a corner' at 3 months. Indeed, for me, they did. General Health improves. Sleep improves. Relationships improve. Focus and Hobbies improve. Another Pundit here mentioned that it took him ~3 years to 'feel like he was fully a non-Drinker'. Whether or not that Timeline is exactly true in my case, it provided me important perspective from a seasoned Sober Vet. Another Pundit said that 'Recalling Drinking is like remembering an old Significant Other'. It is. That immediate, choking 'grip' that either Memory can have on you softens into just another bit of your past. Like viewing some old Photograph. While married once for almost 38 years now, I do have an 'Ex-'. The name: 'Al Cohol'.-)
I greatly admire 'you Kids' making your Sober Decision early on. Being an Old Dude, we'll never know if I would have been able to Sober up at a younger age. But, what's important is that - 42 years after College Boozing & Drugging began - this experienced Addict got around to it last January, eh? Hold that thought, Folks! It's never 'too' late. Now is always the right time.
Old News here worth repeating: Life does get better. Even better News: it stays better. Plus, I don't have to look for my Socks anymore!
My sincere thanks to all! No question: you helped make it happen in very fundamental ways.
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Thanks for the Congrats! I was just minding on own Business, doing my morning 'Check In' here. The stuff that Folks figger out when you put your quit date in your Signature Line, eh?-)
SR absolutely has been central and pivotal to my Recovery. I check in before firing up the Coffee Pot. I check in while in the Grocery Store Line. I check in while the Pooch runs around the Dog Park. At the end of the day, SR is not inanimate, of course. It's a Collective of great Folks, and very hard working Mods. Fellow Techies behind the Scenes. SR is the ultimate, flexible, mobile Basement Meeting Room to this ex-Ham Radio Geek. But, with my own uber-strong Coffee.-) I really enjoy, and take heed of, the many POVs here. I get, and nosh on, what I call 'Knowledge Nuggets' here daily without fail.
Early on last year, getting inspiration here like 'yah, just make it to one week'. 'Yah, things improve at a couple of weeks'. All those truisms rang true, and still ring true. Things 'turn a corner' at 3 months. Indeed, for me, they did. General Health improves. Sleep improves. Relationships improve. Focus and Hobbies improve. Another Pundit here mentioned that it took him ~3 years to 'feel like he was fully a non-Drinker'. Whether or not that Timeline is exactly true in my case, it provided me important perspective from a seasoned Sober Vet. Another Pundit said that 'Recalling Drinking is like remembering an old Significant Other'. It is. That immediate, choking 'grip' that either Memory can have on you softens into just another bit of your past. Like viewing some old Photograph. While married once for almost 38 years now, I do have an 'Ex-'. The name: 'Al Cohol'.-)
I greatly admire 'you Kids' making your Sober Decision early on. Being an Old Dude, we'll never know if I would have been able to Sober up at a younger age. But, what's important is that - 42 years after College Boozing & Drugging began - this experienced Addict got around to it last January, eh? Hold that thought, Folks! It's never 'too' late. Now is always the right time.
Old News here worth repeating: Life does get better. Even better News: it stays better. Plus, I don't have to look for my Socks anymore!
My sincere thanks to all! No question: you helped make it happen in very fundamental ways.
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