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Going back is part of the insanity of the disease. Thinking somehow THIS TIME THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT. Just because I have, now 32 days, does not by any means, mean I am in the clear. I know this from my past record. I'm impressed by the fact that I made it thus far, but until I get in to see a shrink and start working on solid coping skills...well, that relapse is waiting for me.

Right now I am enjoying the 5 hours of sleep I string together and the $$ I am saving. I enjoyed honest to goodness laughter for the first time in forever. The kind that makes your gut ache! I am trying to
catalog these moments so that when I feel weak, maybe I will recall how goddamn good it feels not to be dependent on junk to get through the day. That I am stronger than I know.

Thank you for all the support here. It's the one place I feel free to let it all out.
I almost hate to use the word because I despise it, but the most spiritual people I've met are former hardcore addicts who've gotten clean.

I never will forget this one speaker who came to our sober living he was a straight-up hardened convict and former gang member probably in his forties and one of the things he said that would have sounded lame coming from anybody else was that he loved us...

The sober living house manager he was an old school recovering addict who had been in the original Drs. Dole & Nyswander pilot studies of methadone maintenance on the East Coast and had been going to meetings for like 20 years (mostly AA) in Los Angeles and so we always had the best speakers at our meetings
 
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Spacemen 3... a live version from The Perfect Prescription:



Nineteen eighty-seven,
All I want to do is fly.
All I want for you to do
Is reach up to the sky.

Well, well, well,
Come down easy.

Lord, I'm gonna shake it.
Lord, I'm gonna make it.
Lord, I'm gonna take it.
'Cause I feel...alright, alright.

Nineteen eighty-seven,
All I want to do is get stoned.
All I want for you to do
Is take my body home.

Well, well, well,
Come down easy.
 
I almost hate to use the word because I despise it, but the most spiritual people I've met are former hardcore addicts who've gotten clean.

I never will forget this one speaker who came to our sober living he was a straight-up hardened convict and former gang member probably in his forties and one of the things he said that would have sounded lame coming from anybody else was that he loved us...

The sober living house manager he was an old school recovering addict who has been on the original Drs. Dole & Nyswander pilot studies of methadone maintenance on the East Coast and he had been going to meetings for like 20 years in Los Angeles and so we always had the best speakers at our meetings
Yeah, not so much a fan of NA for several reasons. They seem too militant for my liking. Especially if you need to be on MMT, like Sub or Methadone. I was on neither, but had I, I would never openly
speak at a meeting about it. The other thing, its like a replacement for the drug. You have people that replace their drug/alcohol addiction with meetings. And, on one hand, its healthier (?).

But you get some zealots in there, plus the folks that don't stop talking after the 5 minute rule is up. The war stories, ad nauseum. And I know it's 'take what you need and leave the rest' and I have met
some really cool people, but overall, not my bag.

I have just learned over the years, there really is more than one way to skin a cat AND get sober/clean!!! Maybe I'm finally aging out of this shit??? The drugs I mean. Dunno. It's still hour by hour.
 
Spacemen 3... a live version from The Perfect Prescription:



Nineteen eighty-seven,
All I want to do is fly.
All I want for you to do
Is reach up to the sky.

Well, well, well,
Come down easy.

Lord, I'm gonna shake it.
Lord, I'm gonna make it.
Lord, I'm gonna take it.
'Cause I feel...alright, alright.

Nineteen eighty-seven,
All I want to do is get stoned.
All I want for you to do
Is take my body home.

Well, well, well,
Come down easy.

Great song to be high to;)
 


"Where Do We Draw The Line"

On your palm an endless wonder
Lines that speak the truth without a sound
In your eyes awaits the tireless hunger
Already looks for prey to run down

So why do we keep up this charade
and how do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If it can't be my design,
Tell me where do we draw the line,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

The dance of flames and shadows in the street
Make poetry nobody's ever heard
The weight of loneliness stands on your feet
The cage already there around the bird

So why don't we join the masquerade
before it all falls apart, before our love becomes insatiate?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If I can't choose my own design,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If we all walk behind the blind,
Tell me where do we draw the line,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

Where's the cooling wind?
Where's the evergreen field?
Where's my mother's open arms?
Where's my father lion heart?
It's like the sun's gone down
Sleeps in the hallowed ground now
With the autumn's brown leaves
With the one who never grieves

So why do we keep up this charade
and how do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait?

What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If it can't be my design,
Tell me where do we draw the line?

Whatever tomorrow wants from me,
At least I'm here, at least I'm free.
Free to choose to see the signs.
This is my line.

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@darvocet21 hi man. Saw you above. Hope is well and brighter mood.

This stuff real awesome as well.
Thanks A.T.

The late 80s early 90s produced some great music a lot of it forgotten

I was backpacking in SE Asia then and bought these pirated cassettes & for a month they were all I listened to. Remember how albums used to be a total concept or at least strove to be? Maybe it was listening intently to both over a month but I think that each one succeeded. The Waterboys you probably heard of I think they had a hit or two certainly in the UK and Marty Willson-Piper co-founded The
Church and was responsible for their distinctive 12-string guitar sound. I've tried listening to his other solo efforts but none match the level of experimentation and grandeur of Art Attack. Very reminiscent of The Church but even better imo

Full albums autoplay start from beginning






 
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Yeah, not so much a fan of NA for several reasons. They seem too militant for my liking. Especially if you need to be on MMT, like Sub or Methadone. I was on neither, but had I, I would never openly
speak at a meeting about it. The other thing, its like a replacement for the drug. You have people that replace their drug/alcohol addiction with meetings. And, on one hand, its healthier (?).

But you get some zealots in there, plus the folks that don't stop talking after the 5 minute rule is up. The war stories, ad nauseum. And I know it's 'take what you need and leave the rest' and I have met
some really cool people, but overall, not my bag.

I have just learned over the years, there really is more than one way to skin a cat AND get sober/clean!!! Maybe I'm finally aging out of this shit??? The drugs I mean. Dunno. It's still hour by hour.
So true there are many ways as many as there are addicts. Probably the most under appreciated thing that does happen to an awful lot of people who survive long enough is they mature out of their addiction. Which is the whole concept behind maintenance. Once you stop worrying about the day-to-day grind of having to get enough money to get drugs just to stave off sickness you get the dawning realization of being lied to Big Time. That glorifying opioid addicts is about death.
 
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