Comments on: Exhausted . . . again. Naturally.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:15:27 +0000

Thanks for the post
Congrats on the near three years.
As for the folks who are in and out all the time, just pray for them that they will be as fortunate as you are one day to find sobriety and happiness.
I do feel sad for those who fall in and out a lot but I look and wonder and thank God for ‘but for the grace of God, there go I.’

It could be me and I thank them (the in and outters) for the lessons they teach me each time I go to a meeting.

By: the other cj

the other cj — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:12:02 +0000

One of my roommates from treatment is doing the same thing… in/out, in/out…. he was taken to detox by another of our roommates and his wife this week… checked himself out the next day.

I think Syd’s right. It just feels like, based on my experience, when I thought I was the most helpless case in the world, that anyone should be able to get and stay sober–If I could, anyone can.

But I really wasn’t the most helpless case in the world–I was a garden variety drunk and addict who somehow has managed to follow directions for a few days at a time. I’m thanking my higher power for that and praying for the rest.

Congratulations, dude. Sleep well.

By: Syd

Syd — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:29:37 +0000

Maybe some are constitutionally incapable of staying sober. I’m glad that you are working the program. I too was “hungry” enough to want what was offered to me. I’m glad that I continued as well.

By: Irish Friend of Bill

Irish Friend of Bill — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:33:11 +0000

wow amazing three years. amazing what the program can do isnt it?
we are so ‘hopeless state of mind and body’ yet we stay sober thanks to the suggestions and get to build a meaningful life for ourselves. how cool is that?

hhaha yeah and the ? weirdest thing, is that it keeps ! getting better life gets more satisfying and meaningful the more we do this thing.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:10:17 +0000

Casey, do you ever have the thing where it seems like whatever is happening right NOW – how you feel NOW – is going to last forever? You can’t imagine things ever changing; not really?

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:54:44 +0000

Gosh. 3 years. Remember when it all seemed so hopeless and the distance between where we started and where we are now seemed so far? Now it seems to me to have been such a short time for so much good/growth to have happened.