Base Camp
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: UK
Posts: 431
Base Camp
I see the early period of recovery as reaching base camp on the ascent of a mountain. In the last year I have spent 7 months off and on at base camp.
It is not a bad place to be not the most exciting place but a ton better than getting drunk everyday. It is a platform where we plan and start our route to sobriety.
It is not a bad place to be not the most exciting place but a ton better than getting drunk everyday. It is a platform where we plan and start our route to sobriety.
I don't see where I am at in early sobriety as a basecamp. I see it instead as having gotten off a miserable, cramped, old beaten-down bus that had just been driving in circles for years, and now stepping into a wide open meadow, paths in so many directions, each day, with life's difficulties or not - available for the taking.
It's finally my life.
It's finally my life.
I think pretty much everyone needs some kind of sherpa. There is no way in hell I could have recovered from my alcohol/drug addictions without a lot of help.
I didn't really spend that much time in base camp, as I never really tried to stop until I actually did quit, and I used every method under the sun. I think I got past the Khumbu Ice Fall in my first 120 days, now I'm at Camp 3. Summit not too far off!
The route - climbers guide to Everest
I didn't really spend that much time in base camp, as I never really tried to stop until I actually did quit, and I used every method under the sun. I think I got past the Khumbu Ice Fall in my first 120 days, now I'm at Camp 3. Summit not too far off!
The route - climbers guide to Everest
Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)