"Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change" Promise Nine
As our days in recovery begin to mount up our attitude and outlook upon life will change. All the things that people used to tell us about what would happen when we got clean and sober are beginning to emerge and come true.
I've heard more than once in the rooms a sponsor tell a sponsee that he will not know his life if he sticks around for one year. And that is the truth. For something strange happens when we stop swallowing alcohol and drugs, either alone, or in combination. Usually we have a job by then. And it's strange how little money it takes to live on when we're not wasting it on parties, other alcoholics, loose women, and all the other things that go with that lifestyle. We find that we begin to have more straight friends. And we discover that people don't like to be around someone who's drunk all the time.
One day we go to the teller machine to draw out money and we realize that we have several hundred or even several thousand in the bank. And the realization comes upon us that it doesn't really take a lot of money to get by when we live like ordinary people. We show up to work every day. We stop wrecking our automobile. Our credit gets better because we pay our bills and we make amends to those to whom we owe money. Our credit improves to the point where we can buy pretty much what we want.
And this change in our circumstances has a profound effect upon our attitude. Instead of being gloomy all the time and wondering what terrible thing will happen next, we start becoming happier and more outgoing.. Our outlook changes to the point that we are able to give some of our excess to help others who might be in need.
At this point in the promises we realize what we've been missing out on all this time. And we're happy about where we find ourselves.
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