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20/01/18

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Originally posted by bozwell ↑

Yes Darkroom, yours was an epiphany, mine was more a gradual and sequential experience.More of that another day.

I have a very direct experience Darkroom.

Early days of recovery, bewildered and totally bereft of any personal resources except to survive.

Learning about Power:
Greater than Me --alcohol
Of the group---each takes out more than they put in.
Of example --- behaviour and attitudes modelled by those further along the recovery path.

Power of example of one person in particular, early on, had dark, angry, even murderous moods. (particular people, enough said)
Watched him change over a year or two from as you put it "being self-destructive with a turn-around to becoming gentle with self and others and trying to make sense of life,"

His power of example and person, had a lasting and positive effect on Me.

Fast forward forty years or so.
Camping at Near Point Hicks, hiking back from the Lighthouse, a Park Ranger took pity on Mrs Boz and I and offered us a lift.

Said he liked being a Ranger and also worked at Buchan Caves.

"You would have known Jimmy Daly then," I said (Jim had passed away a year or two before).

"I Did",------ " I MISS HIM TERRIBLY"

This, to a total stranger and a male, at that.

He needed to say no more to me, as I understood him perfectly.

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I love Buchan Caves, the whole area in fact and I love your candour.

There are people who catch you or share unguarded moments and they resonate with this real self we have inside us that transcends race, religion and creed. I have experienced many moments like that, moments that become indelibly etched to memory. Poignant and quiet beautiful when something of the human spirit shines through.

It's all there, we just have to get out of its way.
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