RE: The Burden Of Responsibility (Introspection)
Am a year clean from the pollution of narcotics and alcohol related situations.You dont need that extra burden on your creativity. You may have hurt the people you love but as long as they breathe you can work to fix that. First you have to accept that it hurts you the most to do those things and thats whats actually tearig people away. Ive seen it, ive lived it. Ive made amends with some and lost others the point is, you need to be strong for them even if they're not ready to accept your apologies prove to them your worth with your life and your goals and achieve until you drop because thats all you can do. Life is a hard journey but its the trials and the fear and the mistakes and pain that make the times of joy, love, forgiveness and compassion. It can truly be appreciated and you may find it to humble you to your soul. Much love, i wish you the very best, and hope being clean and sober is the path that gets you your dreams so you can see its all worth it if you work hard. @futuremind
Thank you for sharing your experience with myself and everyone else who happens to read it @dizzyjay
I'm also a year sober, and I believe for those of us who are addicts, it's imperative to remain clean sober to achieve your dreams. In perspective, a year is not that long, but it's still an achievement for an addict. My longest period of sobriety was about 2 years, but then I relapsed, because I wasn't aware of the elusive nature of addiction. It will certainly sneak up on you sometimes in one form or fashion. It's how you deal with your desire to use, that determines whether or not you have a relapse or not.
I'm pretty open about my medicinal use of marijuana though,and this is one of my issues with AA and NA but I still go once in a while. I actually went to NA with a friend of mine a week ago, and had a hard time bearing listening to so much information that I only half agree with, but it's still decent use of my time. Whether or not people view marijuana as a drug or a medicine is of no concern to me, because I write most of everything you see while under its medicinal benefits. I would be scared to think of what would happen if I logged onto steemit under the influence of alcohol.
Blogging and making connections with people on steemit is pretty awesome dude. It achieves a couple different positive attributes to an addicts life. It gives you an outlet to speak with others and develop relationships, make money from others depending on their vests and percentage of upvote they allot to your award, and my favorite part, the sense that others are depending on you with Steemit, just as much as you are depending on them. An active community of steemit users will monetize each other.
That last aspect truly adds some security to my sobriety. I would hate to get drunk, and make the poor judgment call of logging onto steemit, acting a fool, and potentially destroying my reputation and faith that others have been kind enough to give me. This would would be devastating indeed. So the time you spend reading my posts, and commenting really mean a lot to me. Perhaps this is helpful to you too. I hope it is, and I certainly consider you one of my steemit friends!
Heck yeah steemit friends! Seriously though yeah i feel you on every paragraph there even the relapse bit, i consider my smoking cigarettes again a relapse. I hate it. But i too am a medical marijuana user, prescription and all. Lets end the stigma on that right there. Id rather anybody smoke weed than drink. Im a huge anti alcohol advocate. Its ruined so many lives of people i care about. Not just by me but the people around me too. Its destructive. I hope i never ever have to read one of those kind of accidental posts sir, my disappointment would be kind of substantial, only because i care and it would hurt my heart.
Likewise, and you are welcome to contact me through private message on discord if you ever have a moment of crisis and feel like picking up. I'll stop what ever I'm doing to talk to you if I'm not asleep when you message.
Wow. Youre really a great person. I appreciate that alot. I offer you the same. My discord is dizzyjay27
You're a great person too bro! I tried searching your screen name there with no results kicking back for some reason. I might have made a mistake. Join the unofficial Steemit-Friends server I set I up dude, I'll be able to add you to my friends list from there https://discord.gg/nEZ3NG
I'm a bit behind. I have something I need to post, you might have an idea of what it is. Ttyl