March has 31 days so today is my “30 day “versery.”I made it to 30 days again but that’s not how I need to look at it. I shouldn’t discount that I have gotten this far, because it is far. Sobriety is not easy and every day is a gift. I was told once that for every decade of drinking it would take a year to come back. It will take awhile to get all my faculties working and I am still a baby in my sobriety. But like a baby I will grow quickly as time passes and before you know it I will have years and years under my belt.
On this 30th day I am saying goodbye to my friend and roommate TS. We talked all morning and hung out as she does her final packing. We share an ipad to do lectures and participated in discussion group together. It was a good morning. She even said to the entire group “Im going to miss this girl, we are best roomies” while she gave me a hug on camera. She is a gem. We waited outside together for the Uber to come and then realized she didn’t coin out last night so I ran to find the Grannie to get her coin. I came running back with coin in hand and charged with life long sobriety, love, and boundaries for her. She needs to set boundaries more and I know she can do it. If she has these three thing she is on the right track for life.
TH. qualified and it was such an amazing and sad story. She has traveled the world as a young child living mostly in Japan although she is not Asian. Her story has a lot of hurt and abuse in it but I see a strong woman who can over come anything she sets to. There were plenty of things that reminded me of my own story and revived my previous thoughts that we are kindred souls in our past struggles. Tally is the current Grannie and she handed me the thirty day coin after Th shared. Tally handed over with a hug and congratulations. I gave Holly a big thumbs up as she sat smiling at me. I miss Holly as a roommate although she was so much younger than me we too had a lot in common especially when it comes to work matters.