@ThrillaRilla369 Drank from the hose on the regular. Coldest drink you could get! Just don't drink for the first minute, or you'll get that scalding hot water that had been sitting in the sun.
@Tugger_Carlson@ZeroSuitCamus@AlvaGunner I only heard it one other time, and I hope this is where the inspiration began: Josh Lyman on the West Wing talking about his feelings for the woman with whom he wants a relationship. "I'm ensorcelled" (your handle is amazing btw)
@DougWahl1 A guy that lurks outside of and films the girls' bathroom while yelling at people is not someone we want to meet at an empty house... no. Plus what real estate company wants this kind of noise?
@RadioTx76853@TheHost_ Not when "grin and bear it" is a prelude to a grown man SAing a 14 y.o. because she "looks so much older." There's a direct path between the two points. Plus, it's just gross, and people should keep judgment of children and teens to themselves.
Things the recovery industry will not tell you:
1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.
2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.
3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.
4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.
5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.
6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.
7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)
8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.
9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.
10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone elseβs.
@NJBeisner So it's fine to be gay and depressed or anti social. If a gay person has a job they're excited about, proud of, or celebratory for, that's what makes you enraged? Cool how far you'll move those goal posts in order to try and make someone miserable. Just because.