Taradactyl
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- I am truly amazed by those of you with months or even many years of good sobriety who stick around here and are tireless with your kind words of support to everyone here. I am grateful. I appreciate you. You have helped me more than you can...
- Call it desperation. Call it hitting bottom. Call it surrender. I forgot the pain. I forgot how desperate I felt. I drank. I hit that bottom. I surrendered. I got sober. I forgot the pain. I forgot how desperate I felt. I drank. I hit...
- Every day sober brings a new realization. Today I realized... I am no longer ashamed of being an alcoholic. I no longer feel I have to "defend" myself for being different. I am not alone.I won't advertise my alcoholism, but I honestly don't care...
- In THIS moment, I can't imagine any excuse to drink.Weird.Seems the person I was just a few months ago is gone... for now. I guess I spun my wheels out. Or not.I still want a drink.Cunning, baffling, powerful.And so I keep moving.
- I came to AA last October because I wanted to learn how to stop drinking. They kept telling me things about bla bla bla wa wa wa. And sometimes they would hold hands and bla bla bla and clap when someone else said wa wa wa. What a buncha whack...
- I can curse my existence, or I can embrace it. I can waste thoughts wishing it away, or I can take action to change what I am able to influence.I can despise the obsession to drink or I can accept it. I can give in to it and face it yet again...
- I visited my dad today and said goodbye. I told him I loved him. I forgave him. I asked forgiveness.He died 12 years ago.I am grateful for the consequences of my sobriety.
- People caught in a cycle of self pity or pity seeking are both disillusioned and misguided. Until this cycle is understood and the disillusionment is eradicated, we aren't helping.There is a very real underlying problem that must be addressed in...
- What would you do?
- I have none. Gotta get some fast....Picture me down on all fours in a panic trying to scurry up a slip n' slide while desperately rattling off all sorts of imagined wisdom from AA lit....And on the back of my shirt it says, "Do as I SAY not as I...
- " We 'constructively criticized' someone who needed it, when our real motive was to win a useless argument. Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him when in actuality our true motive was to...
- Suffering becomes a part of us. It is familiar. It is "'normal". It fills a hole. It is denial. It becomes a "reason" to be unhappy and even a "reason" to drink. Excuses. If we remove the suffering, then what?Happiness does NOT just fall upon...
- Chris (whoskiddinwho) has 90 days today! Woohoo!I just want to say how proud I am to know you, Chris. You have this incredibly contagious enthusiasm and have made me laugh a thousand times in the last few months when laugh was the last thing I...
- ...is often viewed as a sign of emotional maturity.Why is it so difficult to put off that first drink? Is it because our emotional security and self-esteem is so far gone as alcoholics?
- If we put the same effort into getting and staying sober as we do to many other things in our lives, sobriety would not be "so difficult".I remember a job I took by choice 5 years ago full well knowing what it entailed. It required that I work...