For the sake of anonymity... I won't say the date or the year. But right around now, this is when I got sober. Not my birthday, not a new years resolution, not a DUI or court order. There's absolutely nothing significant about the date, other than... I went to my first AA meeting. They said keep coming back, don't drink, get a sponsor, read the big book, get a home group. I did, and have not found it necessary to take a drink since.
I used to write on my anniversary. And I'd always read what I had written in earlier years, but at some point that lost its importance. I do it every once in a while. It's pretty interesting to read what I wrote then. It tells me how far I have come. It tells me what was on my mind... the things I was obsessed with in my early sobriety. How much I still tried to control the world. How much I still worried what people thought about me.
Thanks for a great post. You have really got me looking back to when I first started with AA and seeing how far I have come in a short time. Thank you for that.
Have a great day.
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
