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Post by ChrisK on Jul 27, 2004 18:31:28 GMT -5
After a 1000 meetings, I know it's a lot better to just listen to what the newcommer has to say. More often then not, I get more out of what the newcommer is bringing to the table then, anything I have to say. I go to meetings because my life is good. I no longer go because my life is bad. It doesn't even seem like I have a topic to bring up.
I'm glad I've stayed around. If, you're new comming into AA stick around your life will get better.
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Post by dudehead on Jul 28, 2004 9:55:30 GMT -5
thanks. But we newcomers (me - 4 months) sure do benefit when old timers such as yourself speak up. Whenever the spirit moves you...
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 28, 2004 21:32:33 GMT -5
I wanted to write you some B.S. Guru crap to your reply. Truth of the matter, I still have a vivid memory of waking up in a jail cell. I didn't come to the realization my life was a total mess until then. I had to hit my bottom. U say you have 4 months good for you. You're the new blood that pumps through the heart of AA. Without you, AA dies off. Don't ever downplay how important you are to me and every person that has multiple years of sobriety. Tell me how bad it was for you. Tell me you had all the pain you care to take. You see, as soon as I forget how bad i hurt, I'll want to pick up a drink again. I'm an alcoholic. I don't drink to socialize. I drink because I am. Simple as that. Even after all the meetings i've been to , I still have to do the same thing everyday. You ask anyone with muliple years of sobriety how they do it. You'll prety much get the same answer time after time. Start off in prayer, work the steps, go to meetings and pray for the relief of your disease for another 24 hours. Fear keeps me coming back time after time. I do belive I have a relapse in me. Question is, do I have another recovery. You get to be an oldtimer by staying sober and not dying  I"d like to do both |
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Post by ~graced~ on Jul 29, 2004 9:23:50 GMT -5
Gosh I missed coming here to hear what folks have to share. Stupid corrupt computers! Hmph!
I get that sense of 'life is good' and having no real topic to bring up insomuchas there being 'bad' in my life. There just isn't! Life is good.
I went to A.A. cuz there was a gun to my head. I had to. Going meant avoiding more jailtime. Been to jail, didn't much like it, thanksverymuch! I stuck around long enough to come to understand that I needed to be around those tables or I wasn't going to make it. I go today because I want to. I don't wanna miss the miracles and I do get to be responsible today.....and the key is 'get to'. It's a priviledge and an honour to be a part of the fellowship today. But boy, it started out as a gun to the head.
I get a life today. One that isn't chained to alcohol or substances. I don't have to worry about that next drink, that next fix.
I'll just obsess over getting the silly computer healed..LOL
That one won't land me in hospitals or jails and it won't trash the lives of others!
*hugs Chris*
Always good to hear from ya!
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Post by ~graced~ on Jul 29, 2004 9:26:53 GMT -5
Oh!!!
And welcome to the board, dudehead!
Four months is way cool!
Stick around.....
A day at a time, we get our lives back--better than we ever knew life TO be.
*hugs*
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 29, 2004 16:53:19 GMT -5
BTW Grace, you inspire me. Thanks for being in AA
Chris
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Post by ~graced~ on Jul 30, 2004 7:03:47 GMT -5
Awwwwww.....
*hugs Chris*
Grace IS an amazing thing, eh? (note there wasn't an "e-d" at the end of that...LOL..I know well this ain't about mememe)
You have a great 24 Chris......G-d's got a great plan in store for this day!
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Post by dudehead on Jul 30, 2004 9:16:28 GMT -5
thanks.
I will stick around... at least today
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Post by mender1 on Jul 31, 2004 6:33:28 GMT -5
A old timer I knew would always say
"stick around until the miracle happen's"
The miracles never stop happenning in my life today,
some consider me a oldtimer now,but yet I see myself just beginning this journey.
I took 11 years to graspe this profram with many painful relaspe's.
I would not give up
I tried I would fall I tried and fall again and again.
But I never gave up getting up and trying again and today I have over 11 years of recovery.
So that mean's I have ben around this program for over 22 years,
I did alot of thing's in the first 11 years to learn what not to do.
I can share how not to do it and now I can share how to do it .
We all live in the same 24 hour's and that is all we have is this 24 to work on.
Length of time is meaningless.
Live and work for today
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Post by ~graced~ on Jul 31, 2004 10:07:24 GMT -5
Hey dude..LOL Sounds funny for me to say that...LOL
If you just stick around 'for today', that's one more day! I can't begin to tell you how many times I took a deep breath, consoled myself by 'understanding' this was all hype that wouldn't work for someone 'like me', but decided to buy time and not move from what apparently worked for 'other folks' FOR TODAY. (the proverbial 'gun to head' helped me make that decision cuz I didn't wanna go to jail or be in hot water with folks I'd gotten upset with me..LOL)
Those "I'll stick around TODAY" moments were enough to buy me enough HOPE, exposed me to enough miracles that that "I'll stick around for TODAY" evolved into showing up cuz I actually got to LIKE some people around the tables.....and then it got to like some of what was happening differently for me. (cuz I had a tough time seeing what WAS different).
Stick around.....buy time -- don't quit five minutes before the miracle, eh?
Nice to have ya here!
And Owen....you've been missed!
(((((((((Owen))))))))
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Post by caressa222 on Sept 5, 2020 1:51:33 GMT -5
Great shares. Keep coming so you don't have to come back.
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I"d like to do both
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.