2442 Reflections
A Day at a Time
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2442 Reflections
I spend a lot of my alone time pondering my sobriety. I've been sobčr 2,442 days. Holy crap, nothing compared to 20 or 30 years but this sobriety stuff is working for me.
Tonight I was thinking about the willingness to change and how this willingness is a very large reason that I'm sober.
I had be and continue to be willing to change everything. People, places, things. I had to give up fighting everything and everybody. I had to realize I'm not going to change anybody and changing myself is full-time job. I had to never be satisfied with the status quo because if I wasn't moving forward I was moving backward.
Sobriety for me is not about trying make my old life work without alcohol it is about reinventing myself. It is about creating a new life based on values, honesty and and making this world just a little bit better
Tonight I was thinking about the willingness to change and how this willingness is a very large reason that I'm sober.
I had be and continue to be willing to change everything. People, places, things. I had to give up fighting everything and everybody. I had to realize I'm not going to change anybody and changing myself is full-time job. I had to never be satisfied with the status quo because if I wasn't moving forward I was moving backward.
Sobriety for me is not about trying make my old life work without alcohol it is about reinventing myself. It is about creating a new life based on values, honesty and and making this world just a little bit better
A Day at a Time
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Grand Rapids MI
Posts: 6,435
Nothing special about 2442 other than it is kind of a cool number.
Change and growth is what is on my mind and how essential they are to my recovery.
There is no doubt I have gone through some unwanted changes. Changes I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy but in the long term who knows how they will play out.
The changes I am talking about are the ones necessary to stay sober
Change and growth is what is on my mind and how essential they are to my recovery.
There is no doubt I have gone through some unwanted changes. Changes I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy but in the long term who knows how they will play out.
The changes I am talking about are the ones necessary to stay sober
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Originally Posted by MIRecovery 
Sobriety for me is not about trying make my old life work without alcohol it is about reinventing myself. It is about creating a new life based on values, honesty and and making this world just a little bit better
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