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The Sandpaper Suit © recovery discovery llc
Coming into the program many of us enjoy the pink cloud. We
think... Ahhh.. finally a solution! We get involved.. We
show up at meetings We work the first 3 steps and life is
good but...
We get busy.. maybe too busy for all this recovery stuff..
Looking at all the work ahead and the last 9 steps which
remain undone... We start to think.. “ I’m not calling my
sponsor again... Do I really have to go to those damn
meetings for the rest of my ever lovin life!”
With these crazy thoughts in mind some of us slack off and
when this occurs out comes the sandpaper suit.... (not
drinking, but not working the program) Some prefer to call
this attitude Step Zero or DRY. It’s simply back to our old
crazy rationalization and unwillingness to be willing.
Quite simply it is the way we were before.
This pickle was always our dilemma when we were out there
and now it’s back because we are not willing to develop a
new manner of living. We think we are better now but we are
not. If this condition is allowed to persist ( by guess
who? ) it is not long before a drink or a drug finds its
way back into our hand. Remember what they said in the
meetings..
“Our best thinking brought us here”
Going back to the old think will lead us back to another
drink.
Easy does it... Stay sober.. Stay Willing.. and whatever
you do don’t quit before the miracle happens!
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