Things are moving slowly…
Probably about 1.5 months clean from opiates and a few weeks from klonopin. I have had no energy the last few weeks. It completely sucks and I hate that feeling. Part of the reason is PAWS symptoms and the other part is just me being lazy. I havent been eating right and it’s just to easily to lay around and do a whole lot of nothing. I am almost done with school this semester, two more tests this week. Sometimes I wonder what the hell am I doing in school? It seems like a complete waste of time and the material is well dull and boring perhaps I should find another subject that interests me. Thats where the problem lies.
I know I am not going to feel better with the snap of the fingers, I know that much but it seems like I have been floating in this limbo for way to long. I have been using drugs for a long time so a down period is only natural, right. At least I am not thinking of using. Not even thoughts. Although I have had some dreams lately that involve a powderized form of narcotics. A thought that I am sure is swimming in my unconscious thoughts somewhere but is simply not going to happen.
Sometimes I just feel like what the hell am I supposed to do? Get a job? Find a girl? Honestly that even sounds dull to me at the moment. Which I guess reflects the mood I have been stuck in. I have been telling myself I am going to start lifting weights again and riding my bike just so I can be active. What the fuck else do I have to do? Watch TV, please… Still havent signed up for summer classes, I don’t know why. School is the only thing that I have to do each day and it gets me up early [8am] than I come home, eat or go out to eat, sometimes go to an afternoon AA meeting, watch tv and procrastinate doing school work, go to a NA meeting, and come home and watch movies. It fucking sucks and is really irritating me. Its strange I can sit here and complain about these mundane events happening in my life but yet I don’t do anything to change it, why?
I am getting so fed-up with how I live my life and have been considering getting a job for the summer either that or take a road trip and go dig some crystals somewhere. I ran into a neighbor at a NA meeting last night it was awkward. I need to get a haircut also just another thing I keep putting off for no good reason. I guess I really have to take a good hard look at my life and try to find what makes me happy. I have been giving some thought to just picking up and moving somewhere but I think I am definitely to early in recovery to do that. On the other hand, I need some change in my life. Something different, this bland everyday seems the same shit is really making me unmotivated.
I really don’t have a clue, at all. Just like my whole life… I am sick of just sitting around waiting for something to happen to/for me, it gets boring. Although I suppose that is what I need right now. Calmness and no responsibilities? Is that really what I need though? Sure its nice to be able to do whatever I want, when I want to do it but it fosters and promotes laziness. Tell you the truth I am a little nervous about getting a job and I guess have been putting it off for many, many years. Whatever though. I am clean [off everything, not even taking sleeping pills] and slowly getting better everyday.
You think I would be happy about that but it’s just kinda like ho-hum, fucking great so I am sober. I have been trying to get to this spot for sooo long and now that I get here its like now what do I do? Being lazy isn’t the same when you are sober, shit gets old real quick but what am I going to do about it? Going to go see John Prine play in a couple of weeks which should be good. Other than that I havent been returning phone calls. Going out and drinking beer is well boring and leaves me with a headache. I really should not be complaining though as things are really not that bad.
peace.
seedless
May 12, 2010 at 12:36 am
you sobered up around the same time i did. keep at it man, and don’t slip. you could ruin all of it and start on the wagon again, it’s not worth it, not even as a party drug b/c all it does is hold you back.
May 14, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Years ago I used to sleep through meetings almost from beginning to end… I always blamed this on not having slept properly at night ~ never on the gear I’d taken to get me TO the meeting.
I once found myself nearly hitting up in the toilets but couldn’t go through with it ~ vital piece of kit missing. (Vitamin C; it was Afghan brown.) Afterwards I realized what I’d done or nearly done and resolved never to jeapordize anyone’s sobriety like that ever again.
But I’ve never known 3 people in a row going to the loos and come back looking shitfaced!
You’re doing far better than I’ve ever done, I’ve not been 1.5 months opiate free in over a decade. I know it’s down to me, I just wish I could find the wherewithall somewhere…
I wish I could give some encouragement, but coming from someone like me, it would just be hypocritical drivel. But I’ve heard it gets better….