Picked a four month chip yesterday. One of the meetings I attend regularly does the chip thing to celebrate every month in the first year. (Most New York meetings seem to skip from 90 days to one year, and then yearly)... The chairman explains that we pick up these chips not for ourselves, but to show the newcomer that sobriety is within reach... So I got me a purple four month chip!... The last meeting of the month brought along the coterie of Anniversary speakers: one with 90 days, three with one year, one with three years, and one with 25 years... One speaker noted that we are ALL just as close to the next drink... Another pointed out that she reaffirms daily: "No matter what, I will not pick up a drink or a drug today! No matter what!.... This too shall pass". That mantra has worked well for her for 25 years and counting...
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A Manhattan Man Completes His First Years of Recovery
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Hi! I'm Sober Guy and I'm an Alcoholic. I've completed my first year of recovery in NYC. This is my recovery blog... Welcome. Take what you want and leave the rest. Feel free to leave a share...
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"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through... We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness... We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it... We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace... No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others... That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear... We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows... Self-seeking will slip away... Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change... Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us... We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us... We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves... Are these extravagant promises? We think not... They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly... They will always materialize if we work for them".
-- Alcoholics Anonymous pp 83-84
-- Alcoholics Anonymous pp 83-84
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"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes".
"Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes".
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 449.
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I looked so forward to those chips during my first year. It really is a big deal!
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