Hlidays are hard even if yyou are nto an addict the biggest party of the year is comng up i suggest you find 24 hour meeting most areas havw a New Years Ball that way we too can go out and be aaround friends I am going to see IF i can findsomeone to go with me eiher that or i will go outta town for a few days
as for me a istruggle to function when alli wanna do it sleep if i sleep yes life still happens but around me not thru me
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino
I'm sincerely grateful that the first holiday of this season has been completed for me - spent yesterday with my hubby & 12 yr old at an all day Christmas function. It was a lot of work (since I was the only person consistently helping the only guy cooking an entire spread of holiday food for 50 people)...but I had the best time! My family and I had a nice time. The speaker wasn't all that, but it was an NA message of recovery which is all that matters to me.
The same group is also hosting another party New Year's day with a spread of food again. Not sure if we are going to it or not. Also our area is doing a New Year's Eve night time dancing function, watching the ball drop and games, etc. Not gonna be attending it, but I'm sure it'll be fun.
Sleeping is definitely a way to escape without using drugs...not the best way to be an active participant in your own recovery, but then again I only say this because I've got experience doing it myself. Sleeping isn't using, and if it gets you thru a few hard days without picking up a drug then what's wrong with that? Eventually the day will come (at least it did for me) when I had to figure out something different and start being active.
Good Luck, Happy & Safe Holidays all! Another nice thing about being clean on the last night of the year...in NA people are glad to see ya and want you to stick around -- instead of being kicked outta some place for acting a fool (or even more fun, having the cops called!)
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I'm am yet another addict who struggles through the holidays. I'm not tempted to use, but that is where the good news ends. I can't stand to be around relatives who get their serious drink on yet I feel "left out" if I don't attend. It sucks, but I think I have an ok comprimise. Working on it.
My family doesn't "party" during the holidays, but I've pretty much been disowned by them all, so that is why I tried to focus on having fun at the function...cuz the whole week leading up to Christmas, including Christmas Eve totally sucked.
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