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| Step 1 is about smashing the delusion that we're normal. |
| "You sound like a middle age divorced woman, you should get a goldfish" |
| It's all fun and games until you wake up with a used condom in your ass |
| It was interesting to hear stories about how I was, from my kids, when I became sober |
| I used to think my roommates were plotting against me, so I grabbed a golf club once and hid in my room for a few days. I thought this was normal. |
| If you have grumpy thoughts, you stay in a grumpy mood |
| Until I'm dead, I can take a lot more pain. |
| Never be surprised to see an alcoholic drunk no matter how long they were sober |
| Instead of hitting a guy with a chair hit them with a prayer |
| Do you want to know why you were an addict? Stop smoking and you'll figure out why. |
| If you haven't been pissed off by, or been pissed off from, someone in the rooms, you're not going to enough meetings. |
| The gun went off, but I got a squib |
| Looking at my recent relapses, I feel like I never really developed a relationship with my higher power. In the beginning i used the fellowship, but it never evolved past that. I got comfortable. I stopped going to meetings. |
| It doesn't matter what your accolades were, you are still in this room. |
| Karma is a motherfucker... you just got to pray for them |
| The long I stay sober, the gift of desperation has started slipping away and I feel my ego coming back. |
| "Imagine no religion..." Imagine no region? Join AA. |
| Expectations are resentments under construction |
| How do I avoid the next time? Learning weed isn't the problem, but I was the problem. Weed was just one of my solutions |
| "...This old broad, forgive me Lord, will beat your ass..." |
| I was robbed one night and they took everything from me. They even took my shoes and threw them in a bush; how nice of them. |
| "I think COVID is still around, so I have to spray the bad thing back." |
| My creator gave me free will, which means he gave up his power to intervene in my life without my consent. I have a theory of not how it works, but why it works. I'm consciously giving back my self will to my creator. |
| I didn't like cocaine, but I liked the way it smelled. |
| Am I a narcissist for thinking everyone should treat me as I treat them? |