I've read this topic, Ken put out there, 3 times now. I understand the feeling of wanting to be further along in my recovery, when I attended my first GA meeting, I was almost shocked to see what appeared to be friends, shooting the breeze, laughing, all happy. Why were they all happy, I wondered? Couldn't they see I was in pain? Wasn't the fact that I couldn't stop crying a tip off, I wondered? Before long, I was beginning to feel a bit happy, too. Not all at once, still, not all at once. Slowly (slow winners) I was accepting the things I couldn't change, and changing the things that I could. It wasn't all at once, still isn't. But the journey! Where I am today, looking back to over a year ago, the journey has been a blast! Instead of living my life the way I always had, I've found better ways of dealing with reality, I've actually discovered reality has a very beautiful side to it, not boring at all. Unfair at times, I suppose that's the life part of reality. I can remember being thrilled to discover things were getting a little bit better, and I was happy with a little bit! That's leaps and bounds!!!! Slowly leaping and bounding....silly me!
And there you go, Ken :) Thanks bro
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Food for Thought
Posted on 04/13/09, 12:56 pm
April 13, 2009Quote of the Week
"In recovery there are no losers, just slow winners."
I remember being in early recovery and feeling so bad that I just knew it wasn't working. I'd tell my sponsor about it, and I can still hear him saying, "Michael, you're exactly where you should be, and that's exactly what you should be feeling right now." At first I thought he was just handing me a line, but after a while I believed him and learned to trust in the slow progress I was making in recovery. Years later I'd hear other newcomers complain about how bad they felt and about how terrible of a day they were having. I can still hear the old timers ask them if they had a drink that day. "No," they'd respond. "Then no matter bad you think you're doing, when you lay your head on your pillow tonight you're a winner." It was comforting to hear that back then, and it still is today. Now that I've been in recovery a while I understand the wisdom in this week's quote. It doesn't matter what you're going through in recovery or how you feel, the fact that you are in recovery, that you have a program, and that you're developing or improving your conscious contact with a power greater than yourself means that you've already won. You may feel like a loser temporarily, but most of the time and in the long run you'll live a life filled with the joys and miracles of recovery. Over time you, too, will come to see that in recovery there are no losers, just slow winners.
"In recovery there are no losers, just slow winners."
I remember being in early recovery and feeling so bad that I just knew it wasn't working. I'd tell my sponsor about it, and I can still hear him saying, "Michael, you're exactly where you should be, and that's exactly what you should be feeling right now." At first I thought he was just handing me a line, but after a while I believed him and learned to trust in the slow progress I was making in recovery. Years later I'd hear other newcomers complain about how bad they felt and about how terrible of a day they were having. I can still hear the old timers ask them if they had a drink that day. "No," they'd respond. "Then no matter bad you think you're doing, when you lay your head on your pillow tonight you're a winner." It was comforting to hear that back then, and it still is today. Now that I've been in recovery a while I understand the wisdom in this week's quote. It doesn't matter what you're going through in recovery or how you feel, the fact that you are in recovery, that you have a program, and that you're developing or improving your conscious contact with a power greater than yourself means that you've already won. You may feel like a loser temporarily, but most of the time and in the long run you'll live a life filled with the joys and miracles of recovery. Over time you, too, will come to see that in recovery there are no losers, just slow winners.
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