Living and working at TLC is the perfect world for those of us in recovery.
Oh, it's not perfect because it has a lot of new buildings with plush offices. Nor a fleet of nice automobiles. Nor great financial rewards.
It's perfect because we get to live among real live addicts in real life situations. And we get to see what happens when they make the right decisions. And when they make the wrong decisions.
One day we'll be working along side a fellow resident who relapses and doesn't return from work. The next day we'll hear that they were found dead. Or else went to back to jail.
And the flip side is also true. We see our contemporaries getting their legal problems straightened out. Get their driver's licenses back. Buy themselves cars. Getting better jobs. Establishing relationships with their children. Maybe getting back together with the ex-wife. Or find a new woman.
In other words they get to see - in a short time - what happens when we choose to stay clean and sober. Or when we decide to go back out.
I've always believed that vicarious experience is one of the best teachers. I know it's worked well for me
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