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THIS! I fall into quite a few of these and I’m proud of every one of them!!!
I was joking around with someone the other day who is not an addict about how to spot someone who is . While its easy to spot someone whom is under the influence, the longer I’m in recovery it’s becoming increasingly easier to spot recovering addicts as well. I explained to the person I was talking to that we are everywhere and there are also some tell tale signs to someone in recovery.
We’re the ones that don’t quite know where we’re going or what we’re doing, but we’re doing it at a million miles an hour.
We are the ones in your churches that seem to more often than not have tears in our eyes. It’s either because we are hanging on by a thread that day or we are so grateful to be where we are as opposed to where we were.
We are also the ones who enter the churches at night and hang out in the basements and fellowship halls.
We are the ones in college classrooms, a little older than everybody else, struggling but happy to have a second chance to make something better outta life.
We are the ones that seem to get calmer as the crap hits the fan, but freak out in the day to day normalcy.
We’re the ones that are talking to the ones that nobody else seems to want to talk to, because we know what it’s like to be awkward and always on the outside looking in. We can see past the defense mechanisms that people put up and typically try to find the good in the ugly.
We’re the ones you see skipping away from courthouses, happy because we got to leave outta the same doors we walked in.
We’re the ones you see openly praying in public, not because we’re that spiritual, but because we have to ask God for serenity sometimes before we do what our nature dictates we do.
We’ve got tattoos and scars, and typically some pretty interesting stories behind both.
You’ll see us in packs at restaurants, typically after 9 pm, because tacos seem to be the great mediator for the meeting after the meeting.
We’re the ones that promptly admit when we are wrong, not for your sake but because we know how sick we get when we don’t put our own behavior in check.
We serve your food, fix your cars, we wear everything from scrubs to coveralls.
We have compassion in our eyes and hearts for loving people.
I am forever thankful to be in recovery.
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