It was bad. It took a friend buying me a flight, another friend loaning me money, and other friends letting me live with them to move to DC.
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It's still not always easy for me. But, it's less about drinking than about all those other things I learned about myself when I got sober.
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That's my challenge today, to keep being willing to ask for help when I need it, to keep being willing to work to improve my life.
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That's the whole fitness kick I've been on since last March. It took 'til then for me finally to be willing to work consistently on that.
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My focus on it might seem, whatever, but working out has been a big mental health boost for me. Some days I work out b/c I know I need it.
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I get depressed. Now that I don't just go black myself out, I eventually tried to find a ~healthy way~ to deal. Working out & running works!
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It works for me, that is. In any event, that's just an example that I think of of something ~other than drinking~ that I've changed since.
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The point, for me, is that I now have the opportunity to make such changes if I'm willing to do so.
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In a relatively short time, my life is unrecognizable from the direction in which it was heading. For that change, I am so grateful.
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I am also grateful for all of you. It truly inspires me to be able to share w/ so many folks ~why~ I'm grateful for weeks like this one.
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Yes, interviewing the president is cool, and, yes, I loved being able to talk about SCOTUS w POTUS, but the fact that I am able to be ...
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... there at all — the fact that I'm not dead or in jail or destitute — is why I was incredibly, almost disbelievingly grateful to be there.
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So, yeah. It's been a good week. But, that's mainly so for me because of the path that I've traveled to get there.
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And that path that I'll continue on when I wake up in the morning. For now, y'all are wonderful — and I'm off to bed.
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Night, all, and let us be good to one another.
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