by Robert Agee

Created on: May 05, 2008

I would say the biggest thing I am proud of is getting clean and sober. It has been 5 years now,
and I have never been better. I started using when I was twelve years old. I did not stop until I was twenty seven. It was a long hard road I had to travel. In that time, I lost two marriages, endless jobs, cars, houses, and even my freedom once or twice. It was a hard decision to walk into that first meeting. But after I did things just got better and better. The world opened up to me its happiness, and I no longer felt alone, confused, or helpless. I found others to help me rise from the depths of the abyss I had wallowed in for so long.

The reason why I think it is my biggest accomplishment, is because so many accomplishments have sprung from that. I still have my problems, but I face them one problem at a time, one day at a time, and I do not look at everything so negatively. This accomplishment has given me self esteem, pride, confidence, and a sense of self worth. I am no longer ashamed to say who and what I am. My kids are no longer ashamed to know me. People treat me with respect and no longer avoid me out of fear. I can hold my head up high and say that I am a productive member of society. This is the accomplishment I am most proud of and has benefited me throughout my life and continues to do so as time goes by. Its starts every day when I rise only to just hit my knees and thank god for another day on this earth, and ends at the end of the day when I hit my knees once more to thank god for another day clean and sober, and asking for another day on this earth in the morrow.

So will I continue this accomplishment? because that si what it is, an ongoing accomplishment. I will never truly be cured of my disease. Every day I manage not to live in my disease is just another accomplishment. Every time I do something right, and avoid the pitfalls of my addiction, I have accomplished even more. Every day is a new victory in my accomplishments. As the years go by in my recovery, I am thankful for going down the road I did, and the way I am traveling down the road now. My head is clear, my mind is right, my path is straight. It feels good to live in this accomplishment.

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