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meetings for a variety of reasons. the list may not seem that long, but the MOST important reason is: **that meeting makers make it!** for me, it really is that simple, HOWEVER, now that i am looking at what actions i take to maintain and further my recovery, meeting attendance is now on the table, along with all of those other things i diod for so very long. speaking of long time, a couple of shout outs to friends and peers in recovery:

Ryan B
4 years -1461 days clean.
Good Job my friend, glad you keep coming back.

Jayme S
19 years clean
Congrats! I am glad you are still part of the fellowship.
Keep Coming Back!

back to the task at hand. for me, meeting attendance is really a no-brainer kind of activity. it was something i did before i got clean to get out of the “house” every single night, setting up a pattern of behavior that is manifest in my life today. since i took a very deep dive, once i got clean, and left my cohorts and using buddies in the dust, meeting quickly became my social life, and as pathetic as that sounds, it was that simulacrum of a social life that was the impetus for my ongoing recovery. an very odd event took place as i became a “meeting-maker,” i found that my desire to go to meeting was greater than my reluctance and for the first few years of my recovery i attended five to seven meetings a week. it was only as i grew comfortable in my decision to be a member and understood what that entailed, that i began the meeting shrinkage experiment. what i discovered was three meetings a week, seems to be the perfect balance and perhaps the minimum number to keep me connected and sane.
as i progress through this step cycle, that number may be altered to fit the person i have become. i am willing to put everything on the table in this process and i highly doubt that anywhere in my journey will it be revealed that i need fewer or no meetings on a weekly basis. i doubt i will become one of those who finds their new life so busy, and that they have this process so “down” that i wander away from the source of that new life. time p, of course will tell and what i think is GOING to happen, may only turn out to be another fantasy. It is a great day to be clean and the time has come to head on out to work.

∞ DT ∞