(⌚) Garmin says
you have elevated stress levels…my watch told me. I was relaxing in the sauna
at the time! What a load of bollocks!
My girl Mel
just shared a bunch of testimony in PAUSE, a mental health drop in centre. She said
that her car, when involved in an accident, sends a message to her phone. Her phone
then sends a notification to all emergency contacts. She slammed on once,
rather innocently, no one hurt, just a dose of sudden braking, and next minute,
everyone and his dog was ringing her, believing she had been injured. I’m only
reporting this because I thought it was an interesting piece of technology.
Mel is an
interesting girl. I was thinking about pointing her here, but rule number one
in blogging, according to me, is never show your material your material. I’d
rather write about her than have her read about me, if you get what I mean? Do you
see my point? Do you understand me? Are you with me? Just nod along and say
yeah to confirm.
She’s a young
self-harmer with mental issues. You already know that I fully love these types,
don’t you? Yes, I have a soft spot for them. It’s only the second time I’ve
ever met her. I made her chuckle with a left-handed screwdriver joke. She didn’t
get it at first. We got along really well, anyway, and I was able to forget my
stalkers for an hour. Maybe she was placed in my path on purpose. Now that I’ve
had my days off from the mission (pissballing around with narcotics), I can get
back down to the nitty gritty of high frequency vibrational fields, and the laws
of positive attraction.
Apology this morning was a fracas. Instead of one of us at a time relating our point of view, it was more like one big messy cross-talking conversation. It’s a joy to listen to eloquent addicts talk about their pitfalls and successes. I’m back into the role of my lifestyle now, after that horrendous break I just took, and determined to stay true on the right path.
You comedian, you’re thinking, aren’t
you? How many times have you said that?
Yeah, but
this time I’m serious. I’m staying clean.
And how many times have you said that?
⌚Garmin says that you are lying, Andrew.
We’ll see. I’m
having a really good day. Got another lengthy apology session this evening at
Peer Support Group. After a relapse, it’s quite hard to talk about anything not
negative, but I’ll discuss bouncing back with an exalted purpose, which is
almost as satisfying, if you really are bouncing back big time, as flying high
on the business end of a decent spree. I really might stop counting the days
for a while, until I get right on up there towards the higher end of the 90 Day
bracket mark.
Go ten years
clean, have one blow out, and you’re back to square one, as if the ten years
didn’t matter.
I’m not
having any of that. It’s a mug’s game this. I’m out.
Either I’m feeling well and bright and cheery and zesty, or I’m down and out on the mattress behind the curtain. Numbers have got nothing to do with it. Because I’ve recently used, do I have to sit on the shameful step for three months before I can feel well again. No, I do not, I can get right back at it with an improved mood immediately. I can snap out of the fugue and declare contentedness straightaway, by continuing my fellowship engagements and other healthy aspects of life. There’s no need to wallow in the aftermath of a binge. Back on the saddle.