Re: HELP! Suggestions and advice please...

Lilllyntally, unlike my good friend dro, I didn’t show up in my first AA meeting looking for God. I didn’t show up to become a better person. I didn’t show up to find a balance in my life. I just showed up hoping the pain would stop.

Not so much the physical pain, but the mental pain of making eye contact with myself in the mirror. I hated what I had become. And I could not stop drinking.

In a little less than two weeks I will have gone 9 years without a drink. Not even a little one when no one was looking. I wasn’t looking for any of those other things, I just wanted all that insanity in my life to stop. But I found all that and more.

Lilllyntally, there are young people’s meetings, look for one. For people like us, there are only a couple of ways things can go. We can get better in recovery, or we can keep living the life of an active alcoholic.

Richard
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