Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   February 10                                                           Fun!

                  "In recovery, our ideas of fun change."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 107

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   In retrospect, many of us realize that when we used, our ideas of fun were
   rather bizarre.  Some of us would get dressed up and head for the local
   club.  We would dance, drink, and do drugs until the sun rose.  On more
   than one occasion, gun battles broke out.  What we then called fun, we now
   call insanity.

   Today, our notion of fun has changed.  Fun to us today is a walk along the
   ocean, watching the dolphins frolic as the sun sets behind them.  Fun is
   going to an NA picnic, or attending the comedy show at an NA convention.
   Fun is getting dressed up to go to the banquet and not worrying about any
   gun battles breaking out over who did what to whom.

   Through the grace of a Higher Power and the Fellowship of Narcotics
   Anonymous, our ideas of fun have changed radically.  Today when we are up
   to see the sun rise, it's usually because we went to bed early the night
   before, not because we left a club at six in the morning, eyes bleary from
   a night of drug use.  And if that's all we have received from Narcotics
   Anonymous, that would be enough.

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   Just for today:  I will have fun in my recovery!