Congratulations on your 11 years Least & thank you for the gratitude reminder!! You were one of the first to welcome me to SR and I'll always be GRATEFUL for that. :grouphug:

I've let gratitude take a back seat lately and needed your reminder to put it back in the front seat.

Thanks for your post and congratulations on 11 years sober! Grateful to be sober 🙏

Be123, I'm still laughing at that haiku you posted. So very funny. So very good.

:Xmasla

Great post lest :grouphug:

SR has taught me:
Never Give Up. No matter how trying and difficult achieving sobriety can be, never give up on yourself.

Gratitude. That's a big one in my daily wellness practice. Even when the chips are down I make it a point to find thankfulness and beauty in my daily life. Its a pure blessing to practice and perceive gratitude day to day. As some might be inclined to say that's having God on your side;)

Tolerance. I'm a slow learner (also opinionated bullheaded dunce :)work-in-progress:)) but I was willing to practice a tolerant behavior towards others that had conflicting views to my own here at SR.

Introspective. SR helped me take a deep and long look at myself to ask the question 'How do I define my purpose if I still suffer'.
Its the o'le got right your own ship before you can sail into the hearts of others. I looked and found places in my heart that needed mending. Grateful for SR, other members here at SR, the Mods and the whole shebang really:), a Buddha-ish path to walk along and stop to smell the flowers. ;)Love me some flowers ya'll;).

Congrats and great post!

Almost forgot how dare me
 

A SR member once posted this bit of wisdom. I immediately recognized this as clinging an important Buddhist concept referring to "attachment, clinging, grasping". It is considered to be the result of taṇhā (craving), and is part of the dukkha (suffering, pain) doctrine in Buddhism. Craving and suffering! all here at SR can relate to this one way or the other.
IMO The poem was written by a Bodhisattva. In other words my teacher. Letting go of addiction means you don't fight it, it doesn't fight you. I see it as shedding old behaviors in place of healthy behaviors and the transition will best achieved without holding onto the old.
Blessed be from :)Zenny (Will.G)


:)She let go:)
Without a thought or a word, she let go.

She let go of fear. She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely,
without hesitation or worry, she just let go.

She didn’t ask anyone for advice. She didn’t read a
book on how to let go… She didn’t search the scriptures.

She just let go.
She let go of all of the memories that held her back.
She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.

She didn’t promise to let go.
She didn’t journal about it.
She didn’t write the projected date in her day-timer.
She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.
She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.

She just let go.
She didn’t analyse whether she should let go.
She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn’t call the prayer line.
She didn’t utter one word. She just let go.

No one was around when it happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing.

Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort. There was no struggle.
It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be.
A small smile came over her face.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the moon shone forevermore.

— Reverend Safire Rose

Gratitude is such an important part of my everyday life too Least, and I am very grateful that I have gotten to know you through SR! Congratulations on 11 years!!!

You are the best, least!