10 months today - no one is coming to save me
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10 months today - no one is coming to save me
Thank you SR. I am a success story of sobriety. I can almost entirely credit SR as being the means by which I got here.
10 months at 41 years old. It feels like a long time coming and yet as if I've been waiting all my life to get here. That's what the drinking life was for me - it was a sustained period of deadening waiting, suffering in purgatory, waiting for myself to finally give myself the chance to live a life I could be proud of.
Tomorrow is not promised, loss and tragedy are guaranteed, time slips by...
But I do not want to forget the gift, the essential, life -affirming, life-saving gift that I gave myself. I saved myself. No one came to save me.
I was waiting so many years for tomorrow - and the drinking progressed like everyone says, and my days darkened and tomorrow never came until I saved myself.
SR has been the backbone and ground floor of my recovery - if not for this place I don't know if I could have found my way here.
Grateful today, very very grateful.
10 months at 41 years old. It feels like a long time coming and yet as if I've been waiting all my life to get here. That's what the drinking life was for me - it was a sustained period of deadening waiting, suffering in purgatory, waiting for myself to finally give myself the chance to live a life I could be proud of.
Tomorrow is not promised, loss and tragedy are guaranteed, time slips by...
But I do not want to forget the gift, the essential, life -affirming, life-saving gift that I gave myself. I saved myself. No one came to save me.
I was waiting so many years for tomorrow - and the drinking progressed like everyone says, and my days darkened and tomorrow never came until I saved myself.
SR has been the backbone and ground floor of my recovery - if not for this place I don't know if I could have found my way here.
Grateful today, very very grateful.
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LG - CONGRATULATIONS!!!
In a nutshell this shows the challenge, the falls & finally sweet sweet victory:
lessgravity Member Join Date: Jun 2013
10 months today - 02-12-2019
Early Suffering Post:
Life blacked out
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...acked-out.html (Life blacked out)
It hurts just to read this...
Most EPIC post ever:
My guide to moderation
[https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...oderation.html (My guide to moderation)
One of the best posts by anyone ever on SR!
In a nutshell this shows the challenge, the falls & finally sweet sweet victory:
lessgravity Member Join Date: Jun 2013
10 months today - 02-12-2019
Early Suffering Post:
Life blacked out
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...acked-out.html (Life blacked out)
It hurts just to read this...
Most EPIC post ever:
My guide to moderation
[https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...oderation.html (My guide to moderation)
One of the best posts by anyone ever on SR!
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WOW!!!! Most EPIC post ever, indeed. Thank you for putting up the link, AAPJ. And thank you for your positive, motivational post LG. And congrats on 10 months. I, too, originally joined here years ago. I'm more of a coward than you, though. When I came back this time I did it under a different name. Well done, LG.
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Originally Posted by lessgravity 
Thank you SR. I am a success story of sobriety. I can almost entirely credit SR as being the means by which I got here.
10 months at 41 years old. It feels like a long time coming and yet as if I've been waiting all my life to get here. That's what the drinking life was for me - it was a sustained period of deadening waiting, suffering in purgatory, waiting for myself to finally give myself the chance to live a life I could be proud of.
Tomorrow is not promised, loss and tragedy are guaranteed, time slips by...
But I do not want to forget the gift, the essential, life -affirming, life-saving gift that I gave myself. I saved myself. No one came to save me.
I was waiting so many years for tomorrow - and the drinking progressed like everyone says, and my days darkened and tomorrow never came until I saved myself.
SR has been the backbone and ground floor of my recovery - if not for this place I don't know if I could have found my way here.
Grateful today, very very grateful.
10 months at 41 years old. It feels like a long time coming and yet as if I've been waiting all my life to get here. That's what the drinking life was for me - it was a sustained period of deadening waiting, suffering in purgatory, waiting for myself to finally give myself the chance to live a life I could be proud of.
Tomorrow is not promised, loss and tragedy are guaranteed, time slips by...
But I do not want to forget the gift, the essential, life -affirming, life-saving gift that I gave myself. I saved myself. No one came to save me.
I was waiting so many years for tomorrow - and the drinking progressed like everyone says, and my days darkened and tomorrow never came until I saved myself.
SR has been the backbone and ground floor of my recovery - if not for this place I don't know if I could have found my way here.
Grateful today, very very grateful.
Congratulations on your sobriety
Natom
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