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Chuck M 
Location: Tempe, Arizona
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 Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 12:12am |
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(Emily K H) Glad to be back---more than you know. And for my two cents worth; "Living Sober" is an excellent book. Also "Tomorrow Never Comes".
(Darrin L) As for myself, I need to be a "Recovering" alcoholic always----in my twisted brain "recovered" means cured and I would undoubtedly go back to the hell I have been through way too many times. My journey has no destination for sure. And btw, that is one of my favorite quotes---"Life is a road, not a destination" is how I have always said it. Thanks for the reminder.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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AnnW
Location: Anywhere USA
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 1:44am |
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Emily KH, Loved "Drinking a Love Story" by Carolyn Knapp. Read this when I was contemplating my alcoholism and what I was going to do about it. Read the first time with drink in hand. After a few months, I admitted I could not simply will this problem away and that I was spinning out of control. For me, this meant being one thing during the day ie. a professional giving advice and counsel to others, and another during the night, a drunk. What a hypocrite I had become. I went through outpatient treatment and several months later read the book again while sober. Amazing! After reading the book for a second time, I did a follow-up on Ms. Knapp's life and learned that after a few years of sobriety, she was stricken with cancer and died shortly after her diagnosis. If memory serves me correct, she was 42 years old. I have to admit, I shed some tears and I am as hard as stone. For a moment I thought well, shit, she should have kept drinking. Then, I did an about face and thought. She lived a few years in sobriety, leading a life she had not lived prior thereto. She had conquered her demon. She was productive. She had restored her relationships and her mental state. So I thought, bully for her. She did it with dignity and died the same way. Life is so ironic.
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Ed S
Location: Virginia
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 4:21am |
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Ed, an alcoholic. Stum, I've heard it said that when we are looking for another way, we need to change our mind. Try it. What you believe or don't believe, what you want or don't want, are simply decisions you have made. If they aren't working, you might try changing your mind.
AnnW - It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. If you've posted here before the past couple days, I somehow missed it. Welcome.
Tracy D - Hope you're using some AA meetings to help fill those hours. From what I've read, you've received a lot of good encouragement. The bottom line in the various post is that it will get better. No matter how it looks to you now, do what you know you need to do and it will get better. When you look at Robert, Chuck, Ann, Annie and other regulars here, you just need to trust that it will get better. They are the best examples I can imagine.
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Ed S
"And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
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TracyD
Location: Alberta, CANADA
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 4:36am |
Thanks (((ALL))) for your wonderful posts. You guys truly do mean the world to me. ((((Hugs))))
I am sober and I took your advice and went to a meeting tonight., and now I am going to my basket <aka:beddy bye>
Lotsa Luff n' Schtuff
Miss Tracy
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Step into the sunlight of your spirit!
Never Look down on someone unless you want to help them back up.
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Emily K H
Location: Bend, Oregon
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 4:41am |
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((Tracy))
Ann W - I heard about her death, too. Whenever I read a good book I usually google the author to learn more about them. I was sad to read that, but - you're right. She was able to experience life sober.
To everyone here who is struggling to get/stay sober - you owe it to yourself. I was one who thought 'never' will it work for me! I didn't want to and couldn't quit and couldn't imagine not drinking again. But one day at a time worked for me. Pretty soon you look around (sober!) and realize f-in A! This is great! Who woulda thunk it?!!!
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VIC S.
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 4:53am |
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Howdy All,
Vic the alcoholic here.
Chuck, are you the same fella that posted "The Awakening" years back on ES?
(((Tracy D))) Why don't you call some of the people that have been addressing your issues, if you can? I believe it would help.
I really feel for you...you know that.
Think about good ole Stan. I met him. One of the most amicable guys I've ever met. He went to jail for getting a dui on a fuckin' scooter! Now he's in Denver and from the sound of his posts he is moving forward in a good direction.
I'm gonna harp on this again cause it's the only way I've learned to stay sober and slowly but surely meld into me the serenity I so yearn.
I've stayed sober today and today is almost over. Dunno about tomorrow, it's not here yet. Who knows? Might not be a tomorrow.
And so I do with bothersome future concerns that have not yet happened and may never happen. I live in the now. Sometimes it takes every cell in my brain, every nerve in my body to put my total self into this moment...then the rest fades away.
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Wendy F
Location: Downunder
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 6:13am |
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((Vic S)) ((Chuck)) Great to see you both posting again.
Heard this from a relatively newcomer at the local rally last weekend:
'Now is my best friend'
Keep on keeping on ((Trace)) 'To thine own self be true' mate
((ALL))
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Why not avail yourself of the best? B from Randwick
DOS 31st August 1980
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 6:38am |
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Vic S, hi there, Although I was sad Stan had to do a year or so in prison for the scooter DUI thing, I think it was his 4th or 5th DUI conviction, the previous ones the regular way.
Tracy D, you sould great, sounds like you got to a meeting. As Colonel Clink says from that old Hogans Heros series "now ya can't do better than that now can we", or somethign to that effect.
Robert b, I agree a Laywer will speak for the person and say it in a way that is better than Tracy D could say it for herself. Plus, it is apparent she is capable parent. The issue is her DUIs.
Richard b, Happy Valentines Day to you and your wife. Hope you have a wonderful Day. Jean-Claude hired a babysitter and we are going to dinner and a movie tonight.
Happy Valentines Day, grateful to be sober
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February 7-13, 2010 Expectations = pre-meditated