A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
–Carl Sandburg
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The old friends who dropped us.
Personal relations.
As our drinking progressed, most of us lost old friends. Sometimes it was our behavior that drove them away; at other times, it was because they didn’t want to associate with “losers.”
In sobriety, some of our old friendships have been restored. These are real friendships based on trust and true affection.
But sobriety can also give us a deeper and finer understanding of friendships. We may acquire a new set of values on this subject. We may find that some of those whom we considered friends were only fair-weather drinking acquaintances.
Drinking acquaintances will probably ease away from us if we really means business in staying sober. This need not bother us if we’re thinking rightly.
The great news in all of this is that in the fellowship, we’ll be making some of the best friends we can ever have. We’ll also learn how to be great friends with ourselves.
In my thinking about friendship today, I’ll seek people I trust and like, not people I can use.
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Early on in my drinking I was a life of the party kind of guy…I know hundreds of jokes when I drunk…but later in my drinking I became vicious with cruel sarcasm…The friends just slowly started to fade away…I was told less & less about parties & I became very reclusive…Even separating myself from my wife so I could drink alone…
Today I have more friends than I can name & some are very deep rooted, call on them anytime friends…If you had told me this life was what was to come in my future I would have laughed in your face…Guess who’s laughing now…
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