Hey what’s up everybody I’m Mason I’m alcoholic
my sober day is when is it
it’s a June 15 2008 een the way that I
have been able to do that is through God
my higher power one day at a time
but it wasn’t that easy when I first
decided to not blow my brains out and
get some spiritual health and go to
treatment I had to pray like every
minute or every five minutes or every
thirty minutes or however bad it got and
then eventually the more separated I was
from alcohol and drugs
the easier it got for me and it wasn’t
easy at first I had to lose a lot of
good people friend he my running buddy
who I got all my dope from he had to get
locked up he got thirty years in federal
penitentiary
my other two best friends died and the
roommate one of my friends who took me
in off the shriti too
so my disease took me I ended up being
homeless and the back of her over on
chinoe way to what we used to call the
shit pit that’s where we used to go as
kids it smoked weed
and it ended me basically homeless I had
a job and I was still working things
could have got a whole lot worse but I
was basically sleeping outside and still
still working to be that that’s insanity
in itself but this guy I met at this old
church called quest the twenty one group
he started talking to me about some
things that started really make sense
and one of the things he talked about
was sober living and eventually well
before I got into sober living I asked
this man to be my sponsor and he went
through the house and everything and I I
went to the house too but they weren’t
gonna let me in at first because I had a
certain I had marijuana in my system for
whatever but the guy who came with went
in there and basically wrote for me
basically said that it took this guy 30
days to get off heroin meth everything
else I was on under the Sun alcohol and
basically they let me in which is very
cool and I’ve been there going on just
about three years I relapse once went
back to treatment went to recovery works
in Georgetown for the second time and
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went through the steps I’m going through
the steps for I think the fourth time
I’m on my fourth four step so that’s how
I have got the most freedom and the most
relief of the stuff that was really
bothering me and holding me back and
holding me prisoner
but and I’ve done it one day at a time
that’s how I’ve done it when I had bad
days I count the hours left of the day
it’s really not that bad
and I’ve noticed – the problems are
among making SS alcoholics we like to
blow shit up out of proportion and
create these scenarios in our mind that
are just as insane as the drugs or
alcohol so for me I have to be aware of
that shit – and keeps you a real simple
and meet people where they are and
that’s really hard as out
