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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!anon
- From: an3203@anon.penet.fi (Andrew)
- Subject: My sobriety date
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.232555.10626@fuug.fi>
- Sender: anon@fuug.fi (The Anon Administrator)
- Organization: Anonymous contact service
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:29:49 GMT
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- I just thought I would provide an opposing viewpoint from
- the others who posted here on sobriety dates (or clean time).
-
- It's a nice little cliche, the one where a person's sobriety
- is based on how early in the morning he/she got up.
-
- I don't buy it however. (The crowd says... WHAT??!)
-
- When I had only one day sober I could not have said anything
- about how to stayu sober to anyone. Someone with 10 years of
- continuous sobriety can tell me a hell of a lot about how to
- stay sober, because he/she has been through a lot more of
- those low spots that I'm sur to find.
-
- Someone 30 days sober is often on a pink cloud and thinks
- everything is easy and wonderful. (Sometimes a 30 day sober
- person is still edgy, I was.)
-
- My sobriety is the result of a loving God, and continuous
- effort. Neither of which I had at 30 days sober. Neither of
- which I had at 1 year. Sobriety takes time. If the person
- with the best sobriety time was the person who woke up first
- in the morning then the guy who drinks, stays sober a day,
- drink, stays sober a day, etc. would be able to just as easily
- explain to me how to stay sober as a guy who has 25 years.
-
- And I'll put my money on the 25 year guy over the slipper any
- day, at least as far as being able to be useful to me.
-
- Just another viewpoint.
-
- Andrew.
-
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