Just for Today Reading!

November 12

Our own story

“When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us.” Basic Text, p. 98 ––––=–––– Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions.  We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity.  “Someday,” we may think, “I’m going to be a main speaker at a convention, too.” Well, for many of us, that day has yet to arrive.  Once in awhile we may be asked to speak at a meeting near where we live.  We might speak at a small convention workshop.  But after all this time, we’re still not “hot” convention speakers—and that’s okay.  We’ve learned that we, too, have a special message to share, even if it’s only at a local meeting with fifteen or twenty addicts in attendance. Each of us has only our own story to tell; that’s it.  We can’t tell anyone else’s story.  Every time we get up to speak, many of us find all the clever lines and funny stories seem to disappear from our minds.  But we do have something to offer.  We carry the message of hope—we can and do recover from our addiction.  And that’s enough. ––––=–––– Just for today:  I will remember that my honest story is what I share the best.  Today, that’s enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all came to recovery thinking that we had to have better stories than everyone else, but really all that was, was our need to want to be better than everyone else in recovery. In the 3.5 years that I have been clean and sober, I have found that some of us that are new in recovery tend to Glamorize our addiction, to make it sound like it was fun, or had it's fun times, and lets face it .. sometimes it did, but if you were to sit and think about all the good times and and all the bad times, the bad times would out weigh the good times by far, Just for today, we only need to think about our recovery, we only need to think where we want to be , not where we once were, we only need to only come to a understanding that yes, we had some good times, but never again, do we need to follow that path again, cause really! Lets face it, our bad times will always out weigh the good times, and the good times, well they were not really that good! Cause we were not our selves then....  I truly hope you all have a understanding that the better times are yet to come, and thats cause we are in recovery! :)  My name is Denny, I am a addict! And let me tell you the GOOD TIMES have all came to my life, while I lived a life in Recovery!