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- From: wrhogeb@srv.PacBell.COM (Bill Hogeboom)
- Subject: Re: Clean time
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.204306.18891@PacBell.COM>
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- References: <yDo7VB1w165w@suction.acme.gen.nz> <BzzKB2.LHG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:43:06 GMT
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- In article <BzzKB2.LHG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-) writes:
- >scimitar@suction.acme.gen.nz (Robert Singers) sez:
- >
- >>I was wondering if anyone had come across the same problem I did. The
- >>fixation with the length of clean time. When I was regularly going to
- >>meetings and worked shops I noticed that a lot of the people who had
- >>been in recovery for a long time, said "I'm clean today" if everyone was
- >>asked how long they'd been clean.
- >
- >I used to be extraordinarily concerned with the amount of time I had
- >been sober and clean. After a while it proved to be a silly
- >preoccupation. What really matters is whether you are clean and sober
- >TODAY. I know I have over 2.5 years sober but can't remember what my
- >sobriety date is...I have it written down at home though. :)
- >
-
- I agree that the most important clean time is today, however, I will
- probably always remember the date of the first day that spent
- without using drugs or alcohol. Over the last few years, when things
- seem overwhelming it's reassuring to look back on the amount of
- clean time I have experienced. Sometimes it is nice to know that it
- has worked in the past and that it will work today if I work it!
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