As of the 19th of May I have been six months sober and I feel great. AA has given me some great tools to not only stay sober but to be happier. The buggy things in life don't get to me anymore because most of them I can't change so I just ignore them, and the ones I can change usually involve me deciding that all they are doing is pricking my ego so *meh* I ignore them too.
So I'm happy. Not insane happy like I was at 3 months but just a "birds are singing, flowers are blooming and it's nice to be alive" happy.
And thankful. I would have settled for just having my life saved but to be also given the tools to maximise the joy I can get from it is a gift beyond my wildest dreams that I used to have in my magical armchair that took me nowhere.
So thanks to all and here is wishing you a great day.
PS - I haven't been around because my hard drive went to data heaven which worked out well because it meant a whole bunch of potentially stressful emails were not read until after the situation had resolved itself. Nice huh?
I love that post. I have a bud struggling with addiction right now and I am long range struggling to get him AND his wife into the NA program so he can be in your shoes. I really do not want to bug her, but I laid out the NARAnon program for her and she seems on board, but its him thats now disappearing off the radar screen. I wish for him what you (and I) have one day at a time. Congrats on 6!
-- Edited by turninggrey on Tuesday 24th of May 2011 10:42:27 PM
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6 months eh. Keep working at it and each day that passes you'll get stronger and more able to cope with life on life's terms. Good that you can see the positive (didn't get to read the snottagrams until after the situation resolved) out of the negatives (Hard Drive dying)
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Snottagrams - That made me laugh out loud because that is exactly what they were.
You've got to see the positives. I tried it the other way and all that happened is that things got worse and everything seemed too hard to solve. Thank God that I found AA (or it found me) when I did because life handed me an awful lot of lemons over the last 12 months - self inflicted lemons mostly, sure, but lemons nonetheless - and I really needed the recipe to make good lemonade out of them.
The world is still the same old up and down world out there but it is a lot more fun to be in it with a cool glass of lemonade rather than sucking on a bitter lemon.
I think there's an invisible principle of living...if we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. Its a lovely sight, watching it work.
Way to go Frodo. 6 months is awesome, considering how hard it was for me to get 30 days! I just have to say, I understand the meaning of the title of this topic, but it made me cringe when I read it LOL. How about "6 months down - a DAY to go"?
Your posts are honest and from the heart, and I really appreciate that. Thank you for helping me stay sober today, and keep trudging down that road to happy destiny!
Brian
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Way to go Frodo. 6 months is awesome, considering how hard it was for me to get 30 days! I just have to say, I understand the meaning of the title of this topic, but it made me cringe when I read it LOL. How about "6 months down - a DAY to go"?
Ahhh, yeah. Sorry about that Chief. I was more thinking of the wonderful journey I'm on rather than the not drinking part.
How about: "6 months down - a lifetime of learning to go and I'm not going to drink one day at a time"?
