Post by caressa on Apr 21, 2009 21:08:09 GMT -5
Recently I posted a copy and paste reading about the importance of meetings. It has been almost a year since I went to my last NA meeting and I went with a friend tonight who was visiting from out of town. We use to belong to the same group and volunteered together for almost 14 years. I was once a member at the group we went to tonight. It was so good to see some long-timers there. One of them I have known since his first meeting. Another one I met 16 years ago, who has been in and out and it was so good to see him clean and sober. Another guy there quit smoking the same time as I did and we both celebrate the same number of years of recovery, him in July and me in August.
I came out of there with the warm fuzzies. Made a contact with a girl who is new to the city and knows no one. Because of my disability I don't go out at night and I realized how much I miss sharing at meetings. They were such a big part of my early recovery and with service, I was still doing 7-10 meetings a week after 10 years of recovery. Here I am seven years later, doing one a year. There is something wrong with this picture. I got a new meeting list so I can connect with some day meetings.
I came out of there with the warm fuzzies. Made a contact with a girl who is new to the city and knows no one. Because of my disability I don't go out at night and I realized how much I miss sharing at meetings. They were such a big part of my early recovery and with service, I was still doing 7-10 meetings a week after 10 years of recovery. Here I am seven years later, doing one a year. There is something wrong with this picture. I got a new meeting list so I can connect with some day meetings.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.