I have many friends I have made in my recovery. Some of us have drifted apart, or I have had to let go of them. There are few that are pretty much like family. I am forever grateful for the people I get to trudge this road of recovery with. We get to have some amazing times having fun together. We have done things like going to concerts, down the river, watching football or baseball games. Playing on softball teams together, even working together.
I am thankful for these relationships as it is nice to have that common groud and understanding one another. We relate on a lot of things and also how we have felt. The hardest past of forming these relationships with people in recovery is we dont know how long we get with them. We cant take for granted they will be sober tomorrow. I think that it is so hard to watch a fellow friend go back out. To see the pain on their faces, the shame, the guilt, the avoidance, the family's pain when they see you and their love one is back of struggling, or that they went back out and passed away. It makes you wonder why? Why did they not get it and I did? What made them go back out? Questions we may never be able to answer.
Please feel free to stop in or reach out. Sending peace and love.
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