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Sobriety is a creation of a new life by our choosing. Same as the despair when the first drink was started. We make decisions in life and how they turned out was our own creation. Is the strange mix of ideas and a mess of things. Creations of deceptions that issues could not get worse than the present. Where did this strange thinking begin? Staying a loyal drinker these thoughts will remain. Clouding and distorting our normal reasoning. The trek back is no jog in the park. Just a jog of twists and turns. We survive years of alcohol abuse and sometimes not finding contentment. We go in circles with confusion and doubt. Creative ideas in hand. Sometimes the future gives us a cold feeling. Like a dark shadow following us. Cold with the thoughts of guilt. Comes the often asked question “what is in the future for me”? My future was to remain sober. Being a writer to help the world. Many years ago I didn’t know what to write about. Then sobriety came along. We created our problems we can create solutions. Turn from the frigid cold and stay near the fire. There never can be too many books and good blogs to help the world find peace of mind. We create ideas and make changes along the way. We created the drinking lifestyle for ourselves so now create a sober one.

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On the job in a factory we increase the flow. Racing against production and time. The job well done is a great reward. Finishing production on time and early. Staying within quality. Why we don’t put this much effort into improving ourselves is hard to explain. When it comes to learning the sober life the book closes and gathers dust. Accidentally gets donated. The list of alcoholics anonymous meeting schedule gets left in a coat pocket for months. Our party schedule never gets lost or forgotten. When it comes to reading the bible or attending A.A. meetings we have a dozen excuses. A friend calls we leave for a party at a moments notice. Invitation to a party and we have a burst of energy and come back to life. No energy for the bible? Start production and create a better life and keep the steady pace. Always keep learning and improving yourself. For the rest of your life production will be made and you will always stay in quality.

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The wisdom advised,accepted, and ignored is our pattern we live with. We choose a different one each day. One word to fit our changing moods. Wisdom is a good thing and lessons always seem to happen. I was told when I was still drinking that I should quit drinking and have the mental capacity to get things done. Not the grogginess that makes us take a day off from work. What about staying home? How much work will we do there? Our important duties are put on hold. For how long? Is a known fact that the cure for depression is Duty. Do something. Stay active. Always something to clean at home. Sobriety will keep you on the top of your form. Drinking and other addictions never will. Even with severe boredom you will be able to do all the duties you’re supposed to do. We pay for our mistakes in life. We can learn better by reading our Bible.

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To break someone’s spirit is to destroy their self esteem.To take away their joy in life.Their belief and joy in who they are.To take away their dreams and the life they had hoped for.And to have them emotionally beaten down to the point where they go from being who they were.To someone who has lost all Hopes and dreams of the person they had once been. We struggle through the issue of a contrite heart. We watch how our lives will change. The spirit will enter into our hearts to become spirit filled replacing despair. We will always have contrite hearts. But now we know how to use it for our own good. Now our lives will be much more livable. We become broken when we lose all the value we had in our lives and more sad to think it can’t be replaced. In many cases there is a good chance it can be replaced. We all lose something we worked hard for and see it be taken from us. Try to replace it with something similar to it or with exactly the same. We need to look for it not sit around and cry about it. Look. When value returns to us we will feel less depressed and new again not broken anymore. Don’t think about losses think about things that gives you value and how to recover the ones we lost. Stay active while looking for it to avoid the bad thoughts of loss and depression.

Put the broken pieces back together for a brand new spirited nature.

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To turn from serious thoughts. Being occupied with an activity so we don’t dwell too much on serious matters. I don’t think about hardship too much I’m too busy focusing on a job I am doing at the moment. I don’t want time to worry about it. This way my serious issues comes to me in brief moments. Thinking too about our issues many strange scenarios can build up in our mind. More stress follows after. I think less about issues and often times a solution comes to me much faster and in a more comfortable way. I was taught this method in rehab to keep our minds off of our drinking. It works. I have been doing it this way all the years I was sober. I have a saying that applies to this. “Too busy doing my job to think about it”.

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I find it difficult in my ongoing search to find serene sleep in a totally dark room. With moving human-like shadows. Silently walking closer to me as I struggle for much needed rest. Every night the shadows haunt me. Pleasant dreams are impossible to obtain. A nightmare always makes itself known and never arrives late. Dressed in a night-veiled cloak searching to enter the serene mind. To destroy the good dreams of all the tired sleepers. At some time in our ungodly life we committed a regrettable sin towards a sacred minded fellow. Our sense of guilt haunts us. Rising up in the darkness searching for calm sleepers to invade. The chill of the fear of death is placed mysteriously across the walls in the form of shadows. This night,like many others previously,we awaken suddenly to the slight haunting sound of soft steps of the feet. Perhaps a curious quirk lurks within us that we will not forgive ourselves. We welcome the haunting moving shadows and nightmares. Making us crave the enlightened moments of the sacred life? Is guilt our own nightmare? Tiny lights splashing gently on the thick darkness of a room. Destroying the power and energy of nightmares creeping about. Visions of comfort created by soft lights. To find our way to somewhere. Now the nightmares are secretly hiding and planning to find the next soul to destroy. All the while the nightmare was only our fear and guilt. The light of life not the darkness of death. Why is this happening to us? Guilt,Remorse,and Relapse will one by one destroy us all. These tormenting sleepless nights episodes will end when the sacred living begins. Until then the nightmares continues.

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I am sitting here drinking my coffee on a cold frigid morning in Arizona. I am reading about a man who stayed sober for 40 years. Enough to make every drinker become jealous. I thought of you and perhaps you would like to join the sober crowd. It is a subject we struggle with at times. “A helping hand to the world” as he refers to himself. He mentions how no means no with no exceptions. People have tried without end to get him to drink on Holidays. No is his answer without end. Sobriety improved his life and will continue to do so. “No end in sight” he says because no is mostly the cure. Continue on in your life and live it. Sober without end. I didn’t want the booze or the thoughts of it to keep giving me a headache so I wanted to get as far away from it as possible. I do write about the events of the life to help people solve their problems not to make them worse by drinking. I have been doing this for a long time and I don’t see an end in the near future. There are many things to do instead of drinking pick any one of them and enjoy it and sobriety at the same time. A value we see in ourselves is what keeps us thinking that being sober is the most important thing in our lives. Always protect it. Never let your guard down. Be careful. We will always stay safe this way and always be grateful to ourselves for it. Yes?

As long as I stay sober my writing will never end

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Providing needs and wants in a business world keeps steady customers returning. Staying with loyalty. We control our own activity by being loyal to our own rules. Adjust to a quality of life to a desired level. We select a procedure and make it work in a particular way. We use this focus to make sobriety work. Can also be used to improve and stay within our own personal boundary. Many people do this and live single. Improvements are occasional. No stress involved. No need to strain our brain trying to think of ideas on how to change ourselves. Ideas,Inspirations,Devotions,The Bible, to name a few. Improvements will happen just look for it. Look for it in the Book of psalms. Relax and wait for it. While you are reading think to yourself how good it is to live sober each day. This is a good way to regulate your life. To a desired level.

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Nifaliophobia – The fear of being sober. May lose your friends? Won’t fit in? The sober life may become too boring? When I became sober none of these ever happened. I fit in better with people, made more friends being sober. Who wants to be around a person who is drunk? Drunk or sober we all get bored at times. I never had any problems being sober for 40 years. Instead of worrying about being a failure at sobriety find ways to make it successful. When thoughts of failure come to mind it’s enough to make anyone start to worry. Don’t think about them think of ways to stay sober then the worries disappears from your mind. They are no longer a part of our lives so leave them alone. Then the stress will go away too. I don’t understand where fear fits in with sobriety for me the fears were finally gone and never returned. Being sober is an easy ride the life of booze never was. Is silly to be afraid of being sober just live it and enjoy it.

Forget the fear of being sober it’s the easiest lifestyle we can ever live

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Riding in the midst of the golden sun I greeted a sitting man. Spending his precious time gathering,selling,and reading books. Takes the time to improve his mind. Absorbing the knowledge in his educated mind looks to sell his sources to passersby. Quoted as saying “My books,the printed pages of knowledge,is my literary gift to the world. Study as I have and be generous to the unlearned.” Feels good to be educationally generous. Gathering of lessons as often recalled in his memory assembled in fragments to preach to an anxious waiting crowd standing in a usually deserted area. Listening with close observation and eager open ears to catch an inspiration of life as many often do. To frame their literary portraits in their memory to later on tell their offspring someday. Telling the world at the same memorable spot what the older fellows have learned years before. Much more wisdom will be gathered and will be told by all. Their portraits will be proudly displayed in a memorable hall. Tales big and small started by the Traveling Man unknown to all. He kept books other people did not care to read. He learned from them and preached the power of their content because he believed we all have the need to learn from the lessons that was written in the books he found. “A simple idea is called a seed”.

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