After a meeting last night a girl that used to work in my agency came up to me and said"you know I have been holding a resentment against you for over a year now!!You blew my anonymity back at work 1 day! The event""Saw her in Lobby and said "hey your Laura aren't you,and she looked at me like a deer in the headlights! I said I know you from Monday night(referring to my homegroup.I was also wearing my MEN DO RECOVER t shirt that I periodically wear.She said why would you say that to me in an open area,I didnt see anyone else around but I guess there were a few other people!!When I would see her at meetings I could feel the coldness but didn't think too much cause didn;t know of her resentment.After I shared about recovery,my journey and some things going on in my life she came up to me and said that she really mistook where I was coming from.I said that yes personal anonymity is up to the individual,I myself have no problem with who I am or what I attend but I did not think enough about her anonymity when we spoke.Anyway I told her that Im glad we spoke and took this to the light and the saddest part was a year spent carrying a resentment.She said she felt freed ,we hugged,laughed and moved forward.Spiritual principles took over instead of whose right ,whose wrong and were never in play ,just patience,tolerence ,understanding and a lesson learned from both sides of the street.Certainly topped off a very blessed day for me,and I believe her also...Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions ever reminding us to place principles before personalities!!
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funny you should post this...cause I was just thinking what a hard thing it is gign to be to keep my anonymity a secret, ANYWHERE I go...even though they are far, because I am public...this could be tricky.
hmmm...
anonimity important.
I'm a singer...but I also teach children horse back riding. No parent wants a drug addict for a teacher eh? hmmm..
Funny thing about anonymity. When I was using drugs, the whole world knew about. I was drunk and stoned in public all the time. But, not that I'm in recovery, I want to keep it a secret. I'm not poo-pooing anonymity, but I think there is some irony here. I try to respect other people's anonymity, though I am pretty much okay with letting other people know I'm an addict in recovery.
