Many people living in long-time one day at a time recovery understand that memories of past early recovery is full of sentimental misgivings. Early recovery becomes a grand, grand time in the minds of old-timers but in truth it induces feelings of melancholic loneliness. Upon reality checking we will discover that early recovery was not so grand and that we had to face a lot of adversity. We will also see that we had lost much to the passing of time. People died, we lost contact with others, our health began to fail, and many people lost the freedom that one day at a time abstinence gave them. In reality we today, living in recovery today, become grateful, grateful recovering people because of time. It’s a glorious sadness many people don’t get to see. Peace.
