Had some fun today. You all might think ... boooooooooooooooring but hey, fuck you! Went to a women's AA luncheon and the food and the friends were GREAT! So here's a couple of pics and mind you this is four generations of AA sponsorship. Don't know what that means, ask and I'll tell you. If you don't give a shit well goody for you for not broadening your knowledge about different things.
Bottom right, Jan - my sponsor 27 years sober
Bottom left, Moi - 18 years sober
Top right, Barb - my sponsee - 7 years sober
Top left, Bobbie - Barb's sponsee - 1 year sober
Me and my sponsor Jan
I have to tell you that it's a blessing to be sober and to have women friends today. I hated women when I was a drunk in the 80s. The bitches would steal your men, money, make up, and tampons. Yes, tampons! Of course I was judging other women in the bars based on who I was. I was a self-centered bitch to say the least. Technically I was very very sick. Emotionally, mentally, and physically sick.
Putting myself in treatment in 90 was the best thing I could have done for the world. The world being my family, my community, myself, and my God. The God that I didn't really know well at all yet. But man that dude had my back while I spent the decade in a tailspin running with dirty butt bikers and kicking the shit out of everyone in my path of destruction.
Jan, my sponsor is a great mentor. She has taught me how to be more of a lady over the years. I joke sometimes that she taught me how to eat with utensils because I was so primal when I got here I didn't know how. That's the root of all she's taught me. The example of the basics of living, if you will.
The woman is an amazing example of agape.
agape: (Greek) love (especially love that is spiritual and selfless in nature)
God blessed me with someone so unconditional, non judgemental, and caring. I'm happy that she's my friend and mentor for all these years.
Bottom right, Jan - my sponsor 27 years sober
Bottom left, Moi - 18 years sober
Top right, Barb - my sponsee - 7 years sober
Top left, Bobbie - Barb's sponsee - 1 year sober
Me and my sponsor Jan
I have to tell you that it's a blessing to be sober and to have women friends today. I hated women when I was a drunk in the 80s. The bitches would steal your men, money, make up, and tampons. Yes, tampons! Of course I was judging other women in the bars based on who I was. I was a self-centered bitch to say the least. Technically I was very very sick. Emotionally, mentally, and physically sick.
Putting myself in treatment in 90 was the best thing I could have done for the world. The world being my family, my community, myself, and my God. The God that I didn't really know well at all yet. But man that dude had my back while I spent the decade in a tailspin running with dirty butt bikers and kicking the shit out of everyone in my path of destruction.
Jan, my sponsor is a great mentor. She has taught me how to be more of a lady over the years. I joke sometimes that she taught me how to eat with utensils because I was so primal when I got here I didn't know how. That's the root of all she's taught me. The example of the basics of living, if you will.
The woman is an amazing example of agape.
agape: (Greek) love (especially love that is spiritual and selfless in nature)
God blessed me with someone so unconditional, non judgemental, and caring. I'm happy that she's my friend and mentor for all these years.
Edited to say: YES! They know they are on here and NO they don't care. We don't do personal anonymity. We respect others, of course, but are the type of sponsorship family that believes we have taken our greatest liabilities and failures and turned them into something to help others. Besides, you saw us falling down drunk outside the bars, right? You knew we were drunks before we did, right?
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Yes I am working in my field, though I am quite ambivalent about it often. The places I'm at don't really make my heart sing, I'm just sort of passing my time, hoping to gain some experience and maybe will end up somewhere amazing down the road. That's the dream anyways.