Hello All,
I have been on here reading other's posts and so appreciative that this community exists. I am grateful that you have all shared so much of yourselves and that has motivated me to begin on the road to sobriety, again.
I am sure that I will share much more about myself at sometime because I have bag that is over flowing with issues and stories and experiences. I am not going to say baggage because my junk does not deserve luggage, but a bag that I would like to take to the road and be over with at some time.
I am going to make a long story short for right now, not like me because I tend to make long stories much longer than they need to be. I am an alcoholic and my first journey down the road of insanity started when I was about 40, I got way out of control and stopped for about 4 years. Those 4 years were not easy, but eye opening. I thought if I got sober then my life would be roses and angelic, it wasn't because the roses have thorns and even the devil was and angel at some time. Those 4 years did let me learn a lot about myself and my life. I got to really look at the bad things that surrounded me and I was able to deal with it.
I just didn't like the bad and dealing became tiresome so a drink here and there seemed to help. The only help it gave me was blindness to what I was facing till I just turned my face. I have now gone on for 8 years of running into a bottle a wine and I am drowning now. Well, not drowning now, I am stopping, this is day one and it is time to get out of the wine pool and dry off. I am not a great alcohol swimmer.
Now I begin, again. I have a clearer knowledge of what it will take to remain sober. Big news item, DON'T PICK UP ANOTHER DRINK. I know it will not be easy because this fall has ingrained in me a stronger habit to break.
I will quit drinking, this will not be easy and my life will not become perfect. My life will be considerably better though, not to mention my health.
I know me pretty well, so expect some stories to come. Right now I am grateful that you all are here. I am grateful that everyone supports one and other, and I am grateful that I might be able leave some nugget of my life on here to maybe help someone else.
That is it, for now.
But wait, I must warn you all also, my spelling is horrible, so please forgive me. I am not an uneducated person, in fact I was an educator! Teachers are really known for being bad spellers, go figure.
Thank you all again!
I have been on here reading other's posts and so appreciative that this community exists. I am grateful that you have all shared so much of yourselves and that has motivated me to begin on the road to sobriety, again.
I am sure that I will share much more about myself at sometime because I have bag that is over flowing with issues and stories and experiences. I am not going to say baggage because my junk does not deserve luggage, but a bag that I would like to take to the road and be over with at some time.
I am going to make a long story short for right now, not like me because I tend to make long stories much longer than they need to be. I am an alcoholic and my first journey down the road of insanity started when I was about 40, I got way out of control and stopped for about 4 years. Those 4 years were not easy, but eye opening. I thought if I got sober then my life would be roses and angelic, it wasn't because the roses have thorns and even the devil was and angel at some time. Those 4 years did let me learn a lot about myself and my life. I got to really look at the bad things that surrounded me and I was able to deal with it.
I just didn't like the bad and dealing became tiresome so a drink here and there seemed to help. The only help it gave me was blindness to what I was facing till I just turned my face. I have now gone on for 8 years of running into a bottle a wine and I am drowning now. Well, not drowning now, I am stopping, this is day one and it is time to get out of the wine pool and dry off. I am not a great alcohol swimmer.
Now I begin, again. I have a clearer knowledge of what it will take to remain sober. Big news item, DON'T PICK UP ANOTHER DRINK. I know it will not be easy because this fall has ingrained in me a stronger habit to break.
I will quit drinking, this will not be easy and my life will not become perfect. My life will be considerably better though, not to mention my health.
I know me pretty well, so expect some stories to come. Right now I am grateful that you all are here. I am grateful that everyone supports one and other, and I am grateful that I might be able leave some nugget of my life on here to maybe help someone else.
That is it, for now.
But wait, I must warn you all also, my spelling is horrible, so please forgive me. I am not an uneducated person, in fact I was an educator! Teachers are really known for being bad spellers, go figure.
Thank you all again!
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