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I see no motive or reason for a sobriety walk.
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Edited by
goldenhinde
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Sat 06/22/13 12:26 PM
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The topic was a sobriety walk. not an AA walk. My twisted logic: Gee if there are enough people to fill a meeting room a couple nights a week, there may be more than just me willing to crawl out of the woodwork to do a walk. The woodwork being their homes, not a meeting room. ringing a bell?  anyway,I wish you a Happy 24!  I did not know sobriety as a whole and AA were so tightly bound together. My mistake. |
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I am not knocking AA. It works for a lot of people but not everyone who got sober is in AA or even belongs in AA. If there was sobriety walk and it was generalized, I would go or at least sponsor someone. I have had people say I was a binge drinker. At very far apart intervals and not very much alcohol at a time (maybe two bottles of girly flavored malt liquor at most i.e. Boone Farms) in one night, I feel I need alcohol out of my life. I have never been one of those do anything to get it. Wreck my life over it, etc. types. BUT I recognized early on before it became a problem that I had no business doing it. I have read the AA Big Book. I have attended meetings in LA with a boyfriend. I see commonalities between how the people I met started and where I COULD end up if I did not stop, so I stopped. I never did drugs because a friend mine was a drug dealer. I think I have quoted him before. He said, "Drugs are for the weak and stupid .....and I don't mind exploiting them". He taught me drugs were NOT okay. And to only get stoned on known stuff with a known person for safety reasons if I was going to. I never did. And I know people don't like my harsh stance on weed but I had a freaking drug dealer friend who would NEVER EVER get high and drive. NOT calling anyone weak or stupid. Not saying ANYONE cannot smoke week or drink. Just saying I choose not to have it in my life.
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Edited by
Jeanniebean
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Sat 06/22/13 12:35 PM
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Why not just celebrate life? Good health?
If you celebrate sobriety, you are subconsciously drawing attention to the opposite ...an unhealthy addiction. What do you think about when someone talks about or boasts about being sober for X many years or months? The first thing I see in my mind is a person who is still focused on his addiction, and no focused on his good health and he new and wonderful life. |
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My daughter would walk with me-and she is not an alcoholic.
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I would still like to know the motive or reason behind a sobriety walk.
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I'm out of steam. It is just a method for awareness of a problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is enough of an issue to stage a car wreck with dead students at a high school.
Some people will not voluntarily walk in to treatment(of any sort) but seeing it on the street on the way to the bank may give that person some pause. |
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I'm out of steam. It is just a method for awareness of a problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is enough of an issue to stage a car wreck with dead students at a high school. Some people will not voluntarily walk in to treatment(of any sort) but seeing it on the street on the way to the bank may give that person some pause. Yes addiction, drugs, etc. is a terrible problem. Don't know if a 'walk' will do much to make people aware of it, but its your idea, so you should run with it. Organize it! To teadipper: If I had a friend who was a drug dealer who had that kind of disregard for people I would reexamine my friend list. Then I would see what I could do to put him out of business. |
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I am exhausted. I am going to make a grilled ham and cheese and watch some Pretty Little Liars now. I need to escape. I need to escape.
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I am exhausted. I am going to make a grilled ham and cheese and watch some Pretty Little Liars now. I need to escape. I need to escape. wow that's not good... |
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pray for me
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I'm out of steam. It is just a method for awareness of a problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is enough of an issue to stage a car wreck with dead students at a high school. Some people will not voluntarily walk in to treatment(of any sort) but seeing it on the street on the way to the bank may give that person some pause. Yes addiction, drugs, etc. is a terrible problem. Don't know if a 'walk' will do much to make people aware of it, but its your idea, so you should run with it. Organize it! To teadipper: If I had a friend who was a drug dealer who had that kind of disregard for people I would reexamine my friend list. Then I would see what I could do to put him out of business. LOL. AS OPPOSED TO A DRUG DEALER WHO HOLDS PEOPLE IN REALLY HIGH REGARD?? LOL. I have not seen him since high school. Though I did pull up his record and he was busted for one count of altering a license plate. That's it. Now I am having visions of the inebriated walk. Take a bunch of people and force them to walk heel toe for charity. |
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I'm out of steam. It is just a method for awareness of a problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is enough of an issue to stage a car wreck with dead students at a high school. Some people will not voluntarily walk in to treatment(of any sort) but seeing it on the street on the way to the bank may give that person some pause. Yes addiction, drugs, etc. is a terrible problem. Don't know if a 'walk' will do much to make people aware of it, but its your idea, so you should run with it. Organize it! To teadipper: If I had a friend who was a drug dealer who had that kind of disregard for people I would reexamine my friend list. Then I would see what I could do to put him out of business. LOL. AS OPPOSED TO A DRUG DEALER WHO HOLDS PEOPLE IN REALLY HIGH REGARD?? LOL. I have not seen him since high school. Though I did pull up his record and he was busted for one count of altering a license plate. That's it. Now I am having visions of the inebriated walk. Take a bunch of people and force them to walk heel toe for charity.  
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I'm out of steam. It is just a method for awareness of a problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is enough of an issue to stage a car wreck with dead students at a high school. Some people will not voluntarily walk in to treatment(of any sort) but seeing it on the street on the way to the bank may give that person some pause. Yes addiction, drugs, etc. is a terrible problem. Don't know if a 'walk' will do much to make people aware of it, but its your idea, so you should run with it. Organize it! To teadipper: If I had a friend who was a drug dealer who had that kind of disregard for people I would reexamine my friend list. Then I would see what I could do to put him out of business. LOL. AS OPPOSED TO A DRUG DEALER WHO HOLDS PEOPLE IN REALLY HIGH REGARD?? LOL. I have not seen him since high school. Though I did pull up his record and he was busted for one count of altering a license plate. That's it. Now I am having visions of the inebriated walk. Take a bunch of people and force them to walk heel toe for charity. Well if I knew two drug dealers, and one of them (by some miracle) held people in really high regard, I would certainly find him more likable than the other guy. Yeh lets organize a inebriated walk. |
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So you started a another one , thats cool .everything going well I hope
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