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- From: johnk@johnk.wariat.org (John M. Kroehle)
- Subject: Re: Concept of God and Losing my Ground
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.035650.531@johnk.wariat.org>
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- Reply-To: johnk@wwariat.org (John M. Kroehle)
- Organization: John's super computer
- References: <56829@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <1992Nov16.220003.17921@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:56:50 GMT
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- As quoted from <1992Nov16.220003.17921@netcom.com> by dhawk@netcom.com (David Hawkins):
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- +---------------
- > stellaa@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Stella Adams) writes:
- >
- > >I feel that some people actually lose theirselves once in recovery. A
- > >meeting every day is someting I know many people do. They wrap their
- > >lives up in recovery so much, that reality is actually gone. Isn't
- > >getting sober and learning to live life on lifes basis our goal. Be a
- > >people among people? Isn't it true that most people in recovery "AA"
- > >usually ONLY have friends that are also in recovery and would rather
- > >not deal with "NORMIES". They don't feel comfortable with them, ie.
- > >insecure?
- >
- > I don't have a lot of friends outside of AA partly because I'm
- > attracted to alcoholics and if I'm going to hang out with alkies, I'd
- > as soon they be sober ones. 'Normies' often don't approve of my
- > program since I didn't get sober through 'willpower' -- I relied on a
- > program, which isn't the American way. They seem to have their own
- > insecurities. ;-)
- >
- I would just like to throw in my 2 cents. When I got sober I was spending 4
- to 5 hours in the bar every single day and 8 hours on Saturday and Sunday.
- For the first year I was sober I went to 10 to 14 meetings a week.
- Sometimes I just went because I had time to fill in and I didn't know how
- else to do it. My point is that for the first year or two I did "lose"
- myself in recovery because I had lost myself completely through 25 years of
- drinking and drugging. The difference is (for me, just for me) that the
- program of AA encourged me slowly to get back into life. If I'm going to
- get lost (in my opinion) I would rather get lost in the fellowship of AA
- than in the streets.
-
- O.D.A.A.T.
-
- john
-
-
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