🌶 it took me 🌶
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2025 02:27:48 PM
i got the news today, that i have been approved for Social Security. i am confused about the size of my benefit, but more will certainly be revealed. i also received two e-mails over the past few days, from allegedly different organizations that may be my next gig. they are eerily similar in structure and content, so i am wondering what is up. the “interview” questions are different, so maybe i am reading far too much into the fact they arrived in the past two days. i will do the next right thing, which is to fill them both out and let go of the results.
at my home group today, i received the news that a peer who has been “around” recovery for at least a decade and a half, died from an overdose, two weeks after he died and was revived from another overdose. 😥 the last time i saw him, he said he was “all in ” for this recovery gig and it makes me wonder what happened. his was not the first relapse i have seen that led to death and sadly probably will not be the last. when i get news like this, i often wonder, what if anything, i might have done, to prevent it from happening. the fact of life in this matter, is that addicts use, that is what we are world-famous for. myself and my peers in recovery, are the exceptions. as one of the few, i have to do a quick inventory of my own state of being and assess if i am in danger of traveling down that dark road. today and just for today, i am smack dab in the middle of the recovery boat and will do my best to remain there. i do not wish to leave behind a legacy of others wondering where i went wrong. i have the ways and means to get another day clean and i think i will post this and do the next right thing.
∞ DT ∞