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9 things

angelpockets
angelpockets
I heard someone say something at a meeting yesterday I'd like to share with you.
"9 things" he said, "I had to give up that one thing (drinking) in order to keep my other 9 things. So if I pick up that one thing I will only have that one thing. I'll lose the other 9."
I get that! When I was drinking I couldn't do, accomplish, own anything! Since AA I have a home. a kid, a life, a God. I have so much today. AA has taught me to live my life one day at a time. Accomplish just one small thing at a time and those little things lead to great big things... like bank accounts! Thanks for letting me share!
deleted_user
deleted_user
thanks !!!
ktharp423
ktharp423
9 Things I'd lose if I picked up a drink....just one drink.

1- My sober time (13 years)
2- My husband (he's sober almost 17 years)
3- My children (that's 2)
4- My house (barely pay the mortgage now)
5- My van (I'm sure I'd drive drunk in it, then I'd lose my license too)
6- My job (can't do what I do without a license)
7- My family (They've already been thru this with my mother)
8- Myself
9- Ultimately, my life

Is it worth it? No, but unfortunately logic has nothing to do with addiction. I think I'll keep coming.
ktharp423
ktharp423
Maybe I'd keep the van if I lost my house & family, I suppose if I didn't have a mortgage I could make the payments, then I'd have a roof over my head....How's that for alcoholic logic?
deleted_user
deleted_user
9 things possibly 109 things, we gain so much when we wre sober.

Hey and ktharp423 if you keep the van you would get done for drunk in charge, they would take the van away and all you end up with is the drink.Lol

This thread is oh so sadly true, it nearly how my story ended, but I pulled back from the brink.

Thanks for posting it

Trickey
Mutley1946
Mutley1946
Kind of reminds me of the January 6 thought of the day in the old 24 HOUR book. "Keeping sober is the most important thing in my life.....I am convinced that my whole life depends on not taking that first drink Nothing in the world is as important to me as my own sobriety. Everything I have, my whole life, depends on that one thing." Anything I put ahead of my sobriety I will lose that as well as my sobriety. If I put sobriety first than the other 9 things are mine to keep. Put any of the 9 things ahead of sobriety and i loose everything. I choose to my sobriety first.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hell yeah, AA rocks.
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