Staying sober because it’s the only choice
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Staying sober because it’s the only choice
If you’re an alcolic/addict and want to have a life which has hope, optimism, peace and serenity.
To all of those just starting or thinking about starting the recovery journey I can tell you 100% it is absolutely worth it! It’s not easy and honesty, open mindedness, and willingness are essential in my experience. If you’re willing to go to any lengths to keep your sobriety and work your recovery then ultimately the miracle will happen.
What is the miracle? Well for me it’s as written in the promises of AA: that sums it up nicely.
I realised the other day that my New Years resolutions have zero to do with not drinking and haven’t for many years; it simply becomes a way of life and the spiritual life becomes a way of living. That may seem hard to believe when you’re starting out but have faith that you too will become totally neutral and disinterested in chemically altering your mind.
Keep the faith, stay sober and providing you put the work in to your recovery and achieve the psychic change/spiritual awakening (or however you want to term it) you will be able to live in peace and tranquility within your own mind; besides the normal life on life terms stuff that inevitably everybody has to deal with.
To all of those just starting or thinking about starting the recovery journey I can tell you 100% it is absolutely worth it! It’s not easy and honesty, open mindedness, and willingness are essential in my experience. If you’re willing to go to any lengths to keep your sobriety and work your recovery then ultimately the miracle will happen.
What is the miracle? Well for me it’s as written in the promises of AA: that sums it up nicely.
I realised the other day that my New Years resolutions have zero to do with not drinking and haven’t for many years; it simply becomes a way of life and the spiritual life becomes a way of living. That may seem hard to believe when you’re starting out but have faith that you too will become totally neutral and disinterested in chemically altering your mind.
Keep the faith, stay sober and providing you put the work in to your recovery and achieve the psychic change/spiritual awakening (or however you want to term it) you will be able to live in peace and tranquility within your own mind; besides the normal life on life terms stuff that inevitably everybody has to deal with.
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Originally Posted by RUL23 
Praying everyday it “gets better”
Day 48 today. So far so good.
Day 48 today. So far so good.
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There is always an alcoholic death as the other choice and strangely enough, to someone who has never experienced the joy of sobriety, only the living hell of active alcoholism, an alcoholic death does not look all that bad.
The miracle you are talking about, brighterday, also became my experience. Though it was beyond my ability to imagine the kind of life I have today, I took a kind of leap of faith that people like you were telling me the truth and there had to be a better way if I was willing to work for it. I could see how others had been like me, and how they had found a way out that looked pretty good to me, and I wanted some of that. I also wanted the misery to stop.
I followed your suggestions and that is exactly what happened. I couldn’t see it, couldn’t imagine it, couldn’t understand how it might work, I just did it, and haven’t needed to drink since.
Thanks for a powerful message, one that has been true for me too.
The miracle you are talking about, brighterday, also became my experience. Though it was beyond my ability to imagine the kind of life I have today, I took a kind of leap of faith that people like you were telling me the truth and there had to be a better way if I was willing to work for it. I could see how others had been like me, and how they had found a way out that looked pretty good to me, and I wanted some of that. I also wanted the misery to stop.
I followed your suggestions and that is exactly what happened. I couldn’t see it, couldn’t imagine it, couldn’t understand how it might work, I just did it, and haven’t needed to drink since.
Thanks for a powerful message, one that has been true for me too.
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Originally Posted by Gottalife
There is always an alcoholic death as the other choice and strangely enough, to someone who has never experienced the joy of sobriety, only the living hell of active alcoholism, an alcoholic death does not look all that bad.
The miracle you are talking about, brighterday, also became my experience. Though it was beyond my ability to imagine the kind of life I have today, I took a kind of leap of faith that people like you were telling me the truth and there had to be a better way if I was willing to work for it. I could see how others had been like me, and how they had found a way out that looked pretty good to me, and I wanted some of that. I also wanted the misery to stop.
I followed your suggestions and that is exactly what happened. I couldn’t see it, couldn’t imagine it, couldn’t understand how it might work, I just did it, and haven’t needed to drink since.
Thanks for a powerful message, one that has been true for me too.
The miracle you are talking about, brighterday, also became my experience. Though it was beyond my ability to imagine the kind of life I have today, I took a kind of leap of faith that people like you were telling me the truth and there had to be a better way if I was willing to work for it. I could see how others had been like me, and how they had found a way out that looked pretty good to me, and I wanted some of that. I also wanted the misery to stop.
I followed your suggestions and that is exactly what happened. I couldn’t see it, couldn’t imagine it, couldn’t understand how it might work, I just did it, and haven’t needed to drink since.
Thanks for a powerful message, one that has been true for me too.
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