many years ago in rehab. She was young, about 18 then and she was basically forced into it by her family because she had f#@ked up her life with party drugs, ecstasy, cocaine, speed, etc. She was the youngest person in the place and because she was immature and a little ditsy all of us worldly, brilliant geniuses kind of snickered behind her back because she was such a keener and so excited about "getting sober". We guffawed at the thought that she would last 5 minutes clean beyond the end of the 28 day program.

Well she found me on the internet the other day on the social net working site called facebook. She's been clean since rehab 5 years ago and is just finishing her degree . I told her I was so happy for her and that I regretted the way I acted towards her back then. I said that I was sorry and that I wished I could go back in time and listened and paid attention to everything she'd done and said because out of all 35 of us she was the most successful of the bunch. She replied "you dont need to go back in time, I'm still here. Come to a meeting with me." I was very touched. I know I'm a little emotional right now because I'm trying to quit drinking but it brought a lump to my throat. I'm going to a meeting  with her tonight at 7:30.

I dont know why a messed up, bad attitude having drunk like me keeps getting the kind of breaks that I do, or why I'm fortunate enough to have these good, decent people continually come into my life...but I feel like I better start showing the universe a little gratitude.