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From: Crystal Bridwell in collaboration with Arnold Orrick
Category: Category 1
Date: 11 Feb 1999
Time: 02:13:49
Remote Name: dialupb194.bois.uswest.net
I was having a conversation recently with another recovering addict when we ran into a normie who had never had to recover from anything, who thought that recovery would be terribly hard and felt sorry for us that our addiction had gotten so bad. In trying to help the normie understand addiction, it occured to me that it is hard to make an addict understand their addiction (let alone a non-addict), But nothing was as bad as using. The path to addiction is not as far away as some people might think it is. Addiction is the easy part. We have all been two thousand miles down that dead-end road and are finding that the trip back is by far the most difficult, but also the most rewarding. I now feel powerFUL over my addiction and not powerLESS in it, thanks to the fellowship and my Higher Power, without whom I would not be here today. As addicts, we have seen ourselves lost and in the program have seen ourselves found. We cant change our pasts, who we were or what we did, but addiction will always remind us where we dont want to be anymore, and help us to remember that we dont have to be.