DAY 5! Still sober & loving it. I have to be honest with everyone, tho, here. My real name is Christine. I used Catherine probably because it's a deniel mechanism, I dunno. I DO know that I want to be honest so I am coming clean with my real name. Can someone tell me how to change it here on my posts?
Anyway, Thank you for all your replies and encouragement.
I was sober for 14 months which ended last year so I know I can do it, just need to learn how to stay sober. I will be starting up with AA & getting a sponser soon. It's slow going but at least it's going.
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Life Lessons From a Frog
There once was a bunch of tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition.
The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.
A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants.
The race began.
Honestly...No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.
You heard statements such as:
"Oh, WAY too difficult!!!" They will NEVER make it to the top!!!"
or:
"Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!!!"
The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one...Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher.
The crowd continued to yell, "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!!!"
More tiny frogs got tired and gave up...But ONE continued higher and higher and higher.
This one wouldn't give up!!!
At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!
THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?
A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?
It turned out...That the winner was DEAF!!!
The wisdom of this story is:
NEVER listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic... Because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you...the ones you have in your heart!!!
Always think of the power words have. Because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!!!
Therefore:
ALWAYS be...POSITIVE!!!
And above all:
Be DEAF when people tellYOU that you can not fulfill your dreams!!!
Keep believing and never give up
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Easy Does it..Keep It Simple..Let Go and Let God..
The other evening i came home to find a bullfrog in the living room.
What a time i had catching it. It must have been your friend. It was jumping 3 feet at a rip, under the couch, behind it, all over the place. finially I caught it and let it go. How did it get in my living room? The only door open was the cellar, it must have jumped up the steps.
