Closing in on one year!
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Closing in on one year!
April 3rd will be one year of no weed no drugs and no alcohol. The support isn't their from others but I'm pulling through on my own. I've been off social media for close to 6 months now no Facebook twitter Etc. I kinda like it but it feels like you don't exsit if your not on social media these days it's pretty sad but if that's how shallow it is I don't want to be part of it. In my one year of soberity I've learned a lot about myself and others I've had deviated septum surgery and am going to Physical therapy to fix some injuries I have to my hamstring. I remember when I first joined this website it was a few days after one of my high school friends overdosed on herion. When I left the funeral that day on April 2nd I thought to myself as I blessed my self with the holy water and stepped out the door I took a deep breath and realized I still had chance to change my life a second chance and that his chance was over that was it now he just another statistic and soon to be forgotten as time passes and that's not what I want for myself just yet.
I was with a friend and we went to a bar and had a few beers after and I went back to my place and smoked after thinking how regularly I did this and how frequently pretty much every day smoking weed and every other day drinking. I never experimented to much just stuck with weed and and alchol I've done cocaine a few times but never got in the habit of it. Either way the next day April 3rd 2014 on my break at work I decided it was time to make a change while I still had a chance. It hasn't been easy but it never is for anybody I'm glad this website is here it's saved me a few times. Which I'm sure it's saved many. I remember my first beer at 14 years old and my first time getting stoned at the same age so pretty much from 14-24 I had been getting drunk and high more on than off for those 10 years and it took a lot of hitting rock bottom and seeing friends before they hit the hole in the ground to change my life. So in closing if a 25 year old line cook in a crazy busy restaurant working with a bunch of alcoholics can stay sober almost a year then you got a shot! So keep pushing and keep on trying and don't give up the fight!
I was with a friend and we went to a bar and had a few beers after and I went back to my place and smoked after thinking how regularly I did this and how frequently pretty much every day smoking weed and every other day drinking. I never experimented to much just stuck with weed and and alchol I've done cocaine a few times but never got in the habit of it. Either way the next day April 3rd 2014 on my break at work I decided it was time to make a change while I still had a chance. It hasn't been easy but it never is for anybody I'm glad this website is here it's saved me a few times. Which I'm sure it's saved many. I remember my first beer at 14 years old and my first time getting stoned at the same age so pretty much from 14-24 I had been getting drunk and high more on than off for those 10 years and it took a lot of hitting rock bottom and seeing friends before they hit the hole in the ground to change my life. So in closing if a 25 year old line cook in a crazy busy restaurant working with a bunch of alcoholics can stay sober almost a year then you got a shot! So keep pushing and keep on trying and don't give up the fight!
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Thank you, Brad, for this post. Congratulations on your upcoming year of sobriety.
I am very happy for you and applaud you for finding such clarity of thought and commitment at such a young age.
I am very happy for you and applaud you for finding such clarity of thought and commitment at such a young age.
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Thanks guys it means a lot to have support it's one of the things that keeps me going to know that there's people out there like me even if it just something as a interaction on a forum on this website. There's not many people that I know that are sober in real life, so it's nice to be able to talk so people that know the struggle and how much of an outcast you feel like and feel like being on the outside looking in. In the long run now it's a Battle worth fighting
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congrats! that's a great achievement
and thanks for this, i drank (and got stoned) from 14-24 too, i'm 24 now and in very early sobriety, and you really gave me hope to keep working at this. thank you
and thanks for this, i drank (and got stoned) from 14-24 too, i'm 24 now and in very early sobriety, and you really gave me hope to keep working at this. thank you
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Thanks everybody for the feedback! It's really appreciated! It's the little things In life we look past sometimes and for me this little thing is coming home from work and reading all the posts! I hope everyone's soberity is going well! Thanks again everybody take care.
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