Surrendered19

Congrats Steely my friend. You are one of the main reasons I am sober and you are an amazing presence here on SR. Many people owe their health at least in part to you. And in the last year, you have had so many challenges after which all of us would have understood if you drank. And you didn't. Your example is powerful and it is why many of us are still sober. I love you Steely.

Snowydelrico

Cracking news steely.
Keep achieving your new life, so many new things to enjoy now and to look forward to.

Gabe1980

Well done Steely! That's AWESOME!!!

LoveDD

Awesome Job! Congratulations!

Steely

My dear friend Surrendered, I thank you, and blush in hope that I have contributed somewhat to this our merry band. We all have our bits to give, the smallest voice often rings the loudest in its wisdom. My voice is broken, but continues to gain. This for us all.

You have helped me much during these past two years Surrendered. You were there, and you understood, when there wasn't much going for me on the ground here, in downtown Aus. We got behind the bat and gave it a massive slog, hey? Makes me feel like crying.

And we made two years!

We all bat together Surrendered, but to me you are one of the openers. That's the opening batsman in cricket, if you are unfamiliar with the term. The better batsman.

I love you too, Surrendered.

Thanks, always.

Mags1

Congratulations on two year Steely

MissPerfumado

Two years and still at the crease, Steely! No dismissals for you. You'll be there at the end of the innings.

Much love
MissP

b0glerd69

Well done! Life is so sweet without it.

fishkiller

Great Work!!

Heres to a lifetime of freedom!

DriGuy

I remember those early landmarks as a very big deal. They seemed more significant to me than ones I experienced 15 years later when I actually stopped counting for several years. I think it's because I didn't believe I would ever see such a significant achievement as 2 years. We tend to measure sobriety in days or years, as if this is the only way possible to measure sobriety, and I suppose for pedantic mathematicians or accountants, it might be. But there is so much beyond numbers that tell a bigger story, and these things are much harder to count and compare, because they are not so clearly visible, and you are experiencing those things right now. Here may be the biggest "metric" of all, the one you expressed in your following comment:

Gratitude! Because it can't even be measured or expressed with a number, and you don't even know who it should be directed toward. I would suggest the proper direction to express it might be inward, because that is where the real source of your success lies. We can thank others for their help and good advice, and they appreciate that, but you were the one searching for the answers and making this thing happen.

In early recovery, there were actually times I would get into bed sober, and exclaim out loud to a totally empty room, "Thank You. Thank You, Thank You!" I would feel a little silly talking to a totally empty room, but that was some of immeasurable gratitude finding it's way to the surface, the gratitude that you mentioned that you "Cannot adequately express." It's just there, and to me, it's a real measure of sobriety.

So congratulations on your gratitude. You earned it.

Zebra1275

Congratulations on 2 years of sobriety!

Ananda

I'm so proud of you Steely! It's beeen a long time since we connected, but I still feel connected to you. I'm grateful you are sharing your sobriety journey with us here at SR. I'm at 3 years and it just keeps getting better!

BackandScared

Congratulations!!!

Sammy1980

Congratulation Steely!

Reid82

Congrats on 2 years. Well done.

Steely

Thank you for your reply DrGuy. So beautifully expressed, and exactly as I see it myself, though still sitting in wonder at the whole damn thing. Love agape.

Sobriety is revealing itself slowly, in ways I did not imagine. It must must be this way I suppose. The next chapter unread and unwritten, until next day begins, and the journey picks up again, in wonder, anticipation, and a quivering look at courage. Brrrrrrr!

Wonder, anticipation, and hope, are replacing fear, at last. Often scary and uncertain, but far preferable to the certainty of alcohol, for me, that is.

Lay down your arms Steely. Sobriety is the better journey.,

Steely

We struck out together MissP, but I stepped outside of my crease and got bowled, run out, whereas you continued to bat.

No matter what, you helped me heaps back then but must say feel embarrassed at some of the junk I used to post. I guess we all feel like that from time to time. I sure hope so, and that I'm not the only dork to walk these threads.

Thanks MissP. 🌺

MythOfSisyphus

Congrats! I'd say two years is awesome!

Obladi

So pleased for you, Steely.
Congratulations

SnazzyDresser

I bet that Steely determination of yours helped. Congratulations!