So I was contacted today by a lad that I knew from my home group. He’s a military guy that I have not seen in a long time, I was correct in assuming that he had been posted to another military base. He reached out to me on social media today, which was great as I was curious where he had been. G (which what refer to him as) came into the program when he was a young lad and he managed to stick around for upwards of 10 years when he was here. He informed me that he was posted up north due to some family issues; that he is doing OK…but just OK. He asked me how my grasp of the steps is at the moment as he was looking for someone to sponsor him temporarily. I’m happy to help him out, but this is a guy that has, to my knowledge, much longer sobriety than I do. Unless he’s had a relapse that I’m not aware of and I sure hope that is not the case. I never want to see anyone go back to that hell that was active addiction.
I feel like I’m going to have to double up on contact with my own sponsor which will be challenging while he is in Florida. I’m very bad myself at keeping in touch with him. I’m the type of guy that reaches out when I am struggling and for the most part I’m great. I have the odd shitty day here and there, but I almost always know what the cause of it is.
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