i'm encouraged by your honesty and self awareness, dubblemonkey. there is hope. grab it and hold on to it. i can identify with your thoughts of when i first admitted i had a problem. it was a scary revelation for me. but through hope i started my journey to a new way of living. the joys i feel now are incredible. i'm glad i reached out for help in spite of my fears of not being successful with my efforts to get clean and sober.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
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