If there wasn't a goddamn pub every two blocks. I don't know how you people do it. You just float around being all sober and happy dishing out sound advice that's impossible for people like me to follow.
Arg.
I started smoking again...if I can't drink I'm damn well doing something bad for me.
I dunno, I tend to think that I am not perfect...i strive to be the best I can, but I will always have faults, and I try to take advice in that vein too, knowing that the advice giver also may have faults, and is probably not perfect, but that the advice is in the right spirit.....hard as that is for me sometimes.....I don't like advice usually, no matter how good it is!!
Paul
ps: I'm sure that these people being 'all sober and happy', also have periods where they don't feel like that. I know that when I am in a meeting, I often can share and sound all happy and sober, but then as soon as I walk out I am back in life again and shits is trumps!!
These couple posts from you Dean totally dont sound like you at all! Are you sure you are ok? You are one of the people on here that I really look up to their opinion on stuff. I hipe I might help you if I could. Hugs, Allison
yea I'm ok. thanks really. Just sharing how I feel. I kinda worked hard through the holidays and burned the candle a little too much. Some good rest this weekend should do me good.
Dean, I definitely understand, and can sympathize with your feeling blue right now. Please take care of yourself, and be tender with yourself right now. Ask for help if and when you need it. I pray that you are able to get the rest and relaxation, physically and mentally, that you seek this weekend. Please continue to let us know how you are feeling, and let us love you as an AA brother.
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~Your Higher Power has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
and Tip...... floating around sober and happy? I beg to differ!! I have done more whining, complaining, fearing, loathing and worrying on this board than anyone else, I think. I have kept asking for advice too, about the most miniscule and also large "problems" that face me day to day, from almost getting divorced last year, to a big bad relapse, to simple irritations. Maybe you just weren't paying attention when other people were feeling down or having problems, but we were, and we do. If I could float around and be that happy, I would have no need for recovery.
I hope you realize that we are no different than you, and you are just like us too. I have seen you VERY content here lately... go back and read some of it, and see again how good it can be...........
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~Your Higher Power has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
