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I have went to my first meeting last night and just wanted to thank you for all your kind responses on here over the weekend and just for this site in general i dont know how many pages of bulletins i read the past couple days...i woke up yesterday on a mission to get out of bed...yea its been that bad...i ran some errands and had planned on going to a 1230 day meeting...just early enough i wouldnt change my mind...well im all gung ho..get to the church i have no idea where i am going tissues in hand ready to bear myself to the world...well...i have no idea where the meeting went, if i was in the right spot, or what was going on...needless to say i left by 1245..no meeting..no good feelings...no nothing...but i made it to one that night and it was actually there!! i had such a relaxing time i even talked a little bit and didnt need the tissues..the people were so nice i just wanted the kind lady next to me to take me home with her...i just wanted to say thank u...and praying does work because i am surprised i went to the second meeting after feeling really dumb going to the first...definetly something other than myself was moving me along because i would of just went back to bed or cried or had a melt down and swore about my bad luck...thank u all :)
Good for you... You are so worth the investment of time... you know? As they say, if it doesn't work out... we are glad to refund you misery in full... *smile*
Keep coming back!
Take care of you!
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"Good judgement comes from experience... experience comes from bad judgement" - unknown
i want to come to the chatroom meetings on here but i am having the worst time trying to get connected to it!!A security error thing keeps coming up..i have to play around some more with it see if i can figure it out!
yeah, its really rough when there is no meeting (when there is supposed to be one). Those dark rooms just break my heart when I see 'um! When I visit my sister (in a very remote rural area), there is only one meeting per week and its in someones private home (which is taboo but out in the sticks, what else can they do?) and man I RELY on that meeting. Last time I was there (over thanksgiving) I went and no one was there and I panicked. I ended up calling program friends and my sponsor for the hour which helped a lot (fortunately I found a good cell phone spot, another problem with remote areas). The lights of the rooms are like a lighthouse for me.
congratulations , and perseverience on finding the first meeting , I smiled when u wrote u wanted to go home with the lady next to you , I remember asking a woman to take me home for 6 weeks feed me this prog every day til i felt better , teasing of course . She smiled at me and said I could do that but wouldn't want to take away your trip . you gotta do it your way- my way she said works for me . You got the right idea *stick with the winners* people who are working the steps , going to meetings ,smiling and laughing I met two women early in rec who had what I wanted so I went where they went conventions , aniversary meetings , service work . your gonna be just fine . Louise
