I’m grateful for the person who told me to write a gratitude list every day. I’m grateful for the chance to live my life the way I’m meant to. I’m grateful that everyone didn’t give up on me and that I didn’t give up on me. I’m grateful for all of the love and friendship. I’m grateful to have three years of sobriety today.
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Here it is, the gala anniversary edition of the Daily Gratitude List.1 Today marks three years of sobriety for TBD.2 While this event has created a certain swirl of emotions recently, some of them not entirely foreseeable, today seems pretty calm and I am pretty good with that. I’ve been working on something longer to share tomorrow wherein I synthesize the three years of sobriety, the ten years of trying before that, summarize all of the changes that have occurred and which ones are in process, with estimated due dates for completion.
Hahaha. You’ve read this before, right? To be super honest, I’m not really sure how to explain any of this, how I got here, the people who have shown up, the me who has shown up, any of it, and there is more of the same coming tomorrow. Here’s the part that I know for sure about the last three years:
I realized my life wasn’t sustainable. I reached the jumping-off point. In that moment, I found the willingness to believe that there was a way out. In time, and with a lot of support, I found the courage to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, as I understood God.
Today, I have three years of sobriety and don’t get me wrong, I think that’s fucking miraculous, but I know the more important day is tomorrow, because I’m starting work on my fourth year of sobriety.
Without further ado, this was the week that was here on Thanks for Letting Me Share [click here or on the picture to see this week’s Saturday Gratitude Round-Up].
See you tomorrow,
Thanks for Letting Me Share
Technically, it’s the anniversary of the alcoholic who writes the Daily Gratitude List, but we tend to conflate those things these days. The anniversary of the Daily Gratitude List is in November.
I’m usually very much against referring to oneself in the third person, and have even stronger feelings about calling oneself by oneself’s nickname, especially when it is a secret nickname. However, certain liberties are being extended today.
Congratulations. Amazed by you. Keep going!
HUGE! THREE YEARS. YOWZA! SO PROUD OF YOU! i'm ten months today, so you're 2 years and 10 months ahead of me. HAPPY TO TRAIL BEHIND YA. MAZEL TOV, MY FRIEND!