The Autumn Equinox
The Autumn Equinox
It's the Autumn Equinox today, Fri., 22nd Sept., 'a time of mists and mellow fruitfulness' which for me, now entering 'the autumn of my life' and well on my way into my ninth year of sobriety adds, without wishing to sound complacent, a certain sense of maturity and 'mellow fruitfulness to the timbre of it...
Something back in my 'drinking days' I never dreamt of even less hoped to achieve, like many of the experiences I, and am sure many others have gone through in my recovery. From those shaky uncertain days when I still thought, after many years of drinking I couldn't go a day without alcohol, it as the days, weeks and months have passed, turning into years, its own 'time of mists and mellow fruitfulness' unsurpassed in anything else I've ever done allowing me to become 'comfortable in my own skin' at ease with others and at peace with myself in a manner you can't buy or fake or least likely to find in the bottom of a bottle...
Something back in my 'drinking days' I never dreamt of even less hoped to achieve, like many of the experiences I, and am sure many others have gone through in my recovery. From those shaky uncertain days when I still thought, after many years of drinking I couldn't go a day without alcohol, it as the days, weeks and months have passed, turning into years, its own 'time of mists and mellow fruitfulness' unsurpassed in anything else I've ever done allowing me to become 'comfortable in my own skin' at ease with others and at peace with myself in a manner you can't buy or fake or least likely to find in the bottom of a bottle...
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