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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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a little emotional engineering,
when your culture guarantees a high quality of life, it is left up to you to tamper with that quality, bringing it down to a level that encourages the survival and creative instincts that
our evolutionary ancestors instilled within us. i chose addictions. never do i compromise my morals, those stay with me thru and thru. my illness begets a search for health. whenever i enjoy a sustained run of good health, my existence becomes complacent. im practicing voluntary illness with the goal of conditioning myself with a bounce-back resolve that i surely will need someday when those involuntary illnesses find me.
romping in the mountains sometimes destroys our quality of life, in that our survival is
threatened, our comfort is compromised, and our fear is ignited. with these struggles, we find reserves or invent reserves that return us to the easy chair.
i can overcome anything. hardship is a playground with bullies in centerfield, hot chicks behind the backstop, and bags of weed stuffed into vacant shoes on the free side of the fence.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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The two year mark slipped right by me. Two years, 10 days.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Happy 2 and 10 El Cap!
Norwegian - May you be one of the lucky ones who either goes life through without damage to self and/or family, friends, health and/or mental stance, or one who is able to step to the side when the clues become too obvious. There will always be plenty to carry the drunken torch forward. (I have also found that the ones who do get sober tend to be the best of the best drunks...).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Convrat! & Me too El cap 2 years and however many days ago the 24 of march was.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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My mom gave me her chip when she drank after she went to rehab.
I still have it.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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26 years. Don't miss drinking or all that other crap. Sometimes it makes people uncomfortable so I don't make a big deal out of it. Been sober long enough not to judge others. And I know I can't save anyone. I really don't think I should get a pat on the back for deciding to do something about my drinking before it KILLED ME!!!! Self preservation was my motivation and that I was tired of all the consequences.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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negative 6 months,
chronologically.
positive giants
emotionally.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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I had to make the decision to take my brother off the respirator after he drank himself to the edge of death. He told me right up to the end that you can't wreck your liver drinking only beer.
I still drink, but I'm beginning to wonder.
What's scary and scaring me is that he had almost no symptoms until it was way too late.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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wonder is a great state at your brink.
only dreams and imagination in front of you.
only reality behind you.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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How is everyone doing? I feel pretty darn good! Clean and sober fot almost six years now. Right arround this time in may of 2006 I started my journy into sobriety.. Did not actually get completly clean untill august of that year but may was the start...
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pb
Sport climber
Redlands Ca
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going on two years with support. love it! nothing is more clever than self deception. namaste
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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abstainers of folly
are wronging the worlds,
for we as a species,
so intellectually advanced
upon the good graces of our's evolution
need a good dumbing down
in order to give own
environment a chances.
my attack on this pile of dirt
is fairly administered only when
im a drunk.
if i were to take a sober plunge,
i'd impart the harm of 1000 humans
for mine ambition and mine resolve
and mine imaginations are greater than
and not equal to god's boast.
entropy don't stand a chance
up against the sober no-reason,
it is only upon the inebriate norwegian
that energy devolves.
i cannot be none specator to reality.
i gotta author it anew each moment thru.
tons of disprespect self-intended.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Still hanging in. Just started working again. So things are looking up. Summer climbing projects are in the air. The stage is set for adventure. Ready to hit the rock this weekend for a FA and camping. ALL IS GOOD!
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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23 months today.
I don't regret the 33 years I spent drinking, if only because it led me to where I am now. I've never been happier and love every minute of every day.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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sorrow suffering and struggle
are insurmountable obstacles
that i must keep hither on horizons
lest i give my spark to
wet-rag-realities.
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Kenygl
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Been sober a long time. No regrets. However while drunk, a few regrets.........We will relive the wreckage of our past. The phrase "I'm not hurting anyone but myself" is a croc. Everyone in your life suffers. Meditation, my group of sober friends and climbing has saved my life. Not just the act but the kinship and focus on community has meant the world to me.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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I now go to AA meditation meetings almost exclusively, which are popular here in Venice/Santa Monica and are held in local Zen zendos and ashrans. Go in the habit of going to one every morning at 7. Life alterning.
Easy does it is a slogan written especially for me . . .
JL
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Watching my sister live through the end of her husband's life. He loved his drinking, and they were married in their favorite bar. Seemed cute and harmless back then. He gave it up when he put the kids in harms way, and she vowed never again. I give him credit for getting on the path.
Many years later, the unseen liver damage is now apparent. A wild youth topped with piles of tylenol led to cirrhosis, hepatitis, and liver cancer. Not curable. Not a candidate for transplant. I watch them cry about missing the golden years together. I watch his daughter cry that Daddy won't be around to walk her down the aisle. I watch his son wonder if Daddy will live to see his high school graduation or Eagle Scout ceremony.
I hope those of you struggling with this see every good reason why today is worth the struggle and do not put off until tomorrow. It matters. Someone does care about you and needs you.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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must really suck to crave a drink and not have one (or a dozen). good luck
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