The best line I've heard about getting and staying sober...

[bif]

"Focus on who you want to be, not on who you were." I've noticed that a lot of rehab is focused on ones past, atoning for it, and forgiving. Which is fine, but at some point I think it's healthier to look to the future. Just my opinion.

[Rollo]

1. Good advice. It goes along with...

You can't always control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it.

[yonder]

2. Excellent advice.

I've been trying to change some things myself, and forward-thinking helps avoid past patterns.

Thanks.

[safeinOhio]

3. That's why I guit going to meetings after3 months.

Went back to school and got my degree while working full and overtime. If you keep talking about it and thinking about it, you could end up slipping. But that’s just me. That was in 1990.

[irisblue]

4. Welp..."Focus on who you want to be, not on who you were."

That will be copied into my journal

[TygrBright]

5. Similar: "The past is blind to who you are now, but the future is listening." n/t

[progree]

6. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. n/t