In mid-October of 2002, before I had ever gone to my first meeting or talked to anyone, I posted a thread in MPSIMS confessing that I was an alcoholic (under my old username). I was just too afraid to actually say that to somebody face to face. I kind of expected to get a lot of jeering, snide, gag posts, but instead got a lot of responses by people congratulating me & encouraging me to kick the habit (habits plural actually).
It took a few weeks, but on Nov. 30th, '02, I finally started a real day-count, took it one day at a time…and lo & behold I’m five years off the sauce (and the bong too!) It’s amazes me a bit, given that I can still recall a time where I couldn’t go two days without alcohol and not get sick. (And two days was about the longest I’d gone in years.)
So I just want to say that I have a tremendous amount of gratitude for everyone who posted to my thread five years ago and gave me their support! Thank you one & all.
When I’m among friends who have more than 5 years of sobriety and who are all working good programs, we consider the one of us with the most sobriety to be the one who woke up earliest that day.
Good to hear, sir. I’ve never been drunk in my life, so it’s hard for me to identify, but I recognize that it’s quite the feat. Here’s to 5 more years.
