Daily Recovery Blog
Sunday Jan 18, 2026
"I didn't get clean to be miserable."- Scotty K.
MISERY IS OPTIONALI did not get clean to feel doom and gloom. I actually began to
enjoy not using drugs. The last nine months of my using was pure
misery. Sure I had problems. I was out on bail, and my lawyer
wanted money. I was preparing myself to do some prison time. It
would have been easy to use drugs to forget my troubles.
Thankfully, I heard others sharing their experience. There is
nothing so bad that drugs won't make worse. That hit home for me.
I was good at screwing up my life. I was told to get 20/20
recovery. Get to the meeting 20 minutes early, and stay 20
minutes after the meeting. I was able to find some people in
recovery to spend some time with. My early experiences with
others included movies, bowling, coffee houses, and picnics.
These were not activities I thought I would enjoy. It was not
very long when I attended my first convention. There were over
500 people there, spending a weekend, celebrating recovery. I was
starting to enjoy my recovery, and I even started having fun.
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be
the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their
gladness." - Maurice Maeterlinck
Saturday Jan 17, 2026
"When you stop treating yourself like an ass, those around you
will stop." - Ken C.
BE A FRIEND TO YOURSELFWhen I was forced to stop using drugs, one truth became very
apparent; I hated the person I had become. I stopped caring about
others quite a while back. I felt less than human. My only
friend, drugs, was taken away from me. I was left with somebody I
hated, myself. All my bridges were burned. I could not even look
in the mirror without disgust. I showed up overwhelmed with guilt
and self- pity. It amazed me that I could even muster up the
energy to show up at a meeting. It seemed odd to me that anybody
could care for a person like me. I could not like myself, let
alone love myself. I was told it was empathy. Nobody felt sorry
for me, but they knew how I felt, because they once felt like me.
I heard somebody say, "be a friend to yourself". It was a slow
process, building up some self-esteem. Simple daily tasks
improved how I was feeling, eventually letting me see that the
fellowship loved me when I was incapable of loving myself. The
first friend I needed to find was me.
"The longest journey of any person is the journey inward." - Dag
Hammerskjvld
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