Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. You know you’re addicted when you misplace things like…a decade. I was always the black sheep and then I started going to meetings and found the rest of the herd. They were hideous.
Is it just me or are all good looking, smart and funny people saying no to alcohol? Whenever I find myself in a gathering and I mention I don’t drink and it provokes everyone around me to stare in disbelief, part of me dies a little. Am I ugly? Why would they think I’m one of them?
When things seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind not with it. Just ensure you’re not a Boeing because you might have difficulty sticking the landing these days. Rock bottom is a solid foundation to build your life.
You’re so great, even germs like you. Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life over again. I didn’t know all I really needed was some HUGcetamol and some KISSpirin to get well soon. The truth is, even superheroes need rest. I’ll be back in action soon.
When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘We’ even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness.’ Asking for help is never a sign of weakness. It’s one of the bravest things you can do. And it can save your life. There is a crack in everything, that’s how light gets in. Explore the strength in perceived weakness.
Sometimes you will be in control of your illness, other times you will sink into despair, and that’s okay! Freak out, forgive yourself, wallow in self pity and forgive yourself tomorrow. I would rather go through life sober, believing I’m an alcoholic, than go through life drunk…
Trying to convince myself I’m not.
©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved
Banter Republic 
Really needed this one. Thank you
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We all did! 🤗
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This dimension of mindset for the week is actually necessary for me..
Thanks bro👌
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You’re welcome mate!
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Your words carry so much depth. Thank you for sharing this Gottfried it’s a reminder that healing is a journey, not a destination.
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It really is 🤗
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“Road To Recovery” Indeed Mr Gottfried What Every
Data Carrier Fears Somewhat Yes Using 12 Years
of Files including a Quarter Of A Million Photos
The i Mac Crashes And in Try of Using a
New SSD External Drive the Time Machine
Backup Refuses to Play Meaning Brand New
Computer to Buy With All the Fixin’s The Road
Lasted 3 Weeks Thanks For Helping me Celebrate
The End And Successful Recover oF ALL that Data..:)
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Just go into recovery mode when you turn on the device
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“Just go into recovery mode when you turn on the device”
My Apologies Mr Gottfried Yes After Writing Close to 14,000 Words
Over the Weekend in Two Days and Literally A Marathon Distance of
Public Dancing on Smooth Store Dance Floors True 21,577 Miles of
Public Dance in 138 Months Too as i Casually Keep the Tally Now of
Miles
Here
And THeRe
Ongoing With
the 13.8 MiLLioN 138 Month
Words oF “SonG oF mY SoUL”
Continuing to Grow as i Collect
(SLoWeD by Computer R And R)
the Multi-Media to Publish the Last
Written effort Celebrating “Nether Land
Bible 12 MiLLioN WordS Old” in 8 Years
And 8 Months Surpassing That Closing in on 12.2
MiLLioN Words Now in Less than Another Month
As i Continue to Write 40 Thousand or So Words
of the Current
MacroVerse Effort of
“Endless
Stories BREaTHE NoW NeW”
Hehe Somewhat of a ‘Prophecy
Continuing to Come True’ in Real
TiMe NoW of This ReaLiTY SHoW NeW
Yes Back to the Original Breath HeaR Yes
my Apologies for Not Providing the Usual
Excruciating Detail on The Weekend’s Events
As i Didn’t Get to Sleep until 8:30 AM Arriving
at Church the Usual 30 Minutes Late almost
at the End of the Homily after Writing mine
First Based on the Catholic Mass Readings
For the Wee Hours of Sunday Morning
Can’t Really Sing About What i was Doing
Between 5 AM and 8:30 AM True i’ve been
Told it is Top Secret and to Keep it that way Hehe
Anyway i Was Running Out of “Classical Gas” Responding
to Your Usual Synchronous Blog Post for my Reality of Life
Hehe as true
i Will Free
Associate
Most Any Experience
of Soul Molding in ‘Spock
Free Ways’ With Other Souls
All Around the World God Yes
As Yes “Endless Stories
BREaTHE NoW NeW”
So Back to Your Original
Advice to Go Into Recovery
Mode Sunday After Catholic Church Visiting
A First Sunday Dinner Too on the Greens
With A Protestant Preacher and His
Family On Their Farm in the Deep
Woods North in Our County Where A
Young Man Challenged me to Some Arm
Wrestling Contests that of Course i ‘Handily’ Won
Then Finishing up the Marathon Dance for the
Day In Stores Reading a Book by Eckhart Tolle
Literally 170 Pages in 30 Minutes at Barnes and
Noble Part of the Over 500 Read in the Last 11 and
A Half Years too Listening to Meditative Music Entertaining
The College Star Bucks Study Crowd Yes in the Book Store too
Usually i Stay an Hour and Read a Thicker Book Yet We Didn’t Make
it There until 45 Minutes Before They Closed the Store Moving Through
Whataburger on my Lap Top With A Quick Burger Finishing up the Dance
At Walmart
Close to 11 PM
True After 2 Hours
of Sleep the Night
Before i Slept Like
A Baby in a Safe
iMMiGRaNT
Manger Hehe
Anyway Back to Your
Original Quote About
Recovery Mode i Didn’t Provide
Enough Details on How i Recovered
1.33 Terabytes of Data From the Time
Machine Mechanical Drive Connected to
my 27.1 Inch All in One Five Years Old iMac
With the Fusion Drive Finally Crashing where
i Did go into Recovery Mode to See if i Could
Repair the Old Hard Drive or Restore the Files
From the Mechanical Time Machine Drive Yes to
A New Super Fast T7 Samsung 2 TB External Drive
Yet Recovery Mode
Balked at Trying
to Recover the
Files off the Mechanical
Time Machine 5 TB Backup Drive
And then i Thought Holy CR8P Perhaps
Both Drives Crashed at Once the Ultimate
Nightmare of Only Keeping one Time Machine Back-up
Oh Dear Lord i Tried First Aid in Recovery Mode for the
Time Machine Back-up it took 8 Long Days to Do on that
Turtle Slow Mechanical Drive All 4.7 TB of Data on that 5 TB
Western Digital Time Machine Drive Pure Computer Crash Purgatory
Mr Gottfried
Anyway i Was
Able to Download
the Latest Mac OS
Sequoia And Install
It Freshly on the SSD
Super Fast 2 TB External
Drive and that worked Fine
Then i Tried the Recovery
From the Time Machine Back-Up
And Even Tried it With an Old Time
Machine Back-up on Another Drive
From Years Ago Still Balking at Installing
Both Yet the SNAFU Seems to Have Originated
From the Fact that the SSD 128 GB Drive Fused
with the 2 TB Mechanical Drive on the Old iMac
Was Still Alive While the 2 TB Hard Drive Part Crashed
Hmm Strangely Enough the New MAC OS Installed on
Both the External Drive and the Internal 128 GB SSD Fused
Internal Drive And The Best i Can Figure out Now as “Apple
Intelligence And ChatGPT” Working Together Could Find Absolutely
No Clue is The Time Machine Drive Still Associated With the Old
Fusion Drive Was Insisting on Putting the Data There Instead of
The New External Drive Yet of Course That Was Only an SSD Cache Drive
Inside the
Old iMac
With No
Home of
Full Storage
Drive For Operation
of The Computer Hehe
Sort of a Living Ghost in the Machine
Anyway New M4 Mini Mac to the Rescue
Smooth as Honey And Quiet As a Butterfly’s
Wings From a Distance Only Takes 2 Hours to
Back Up All that Data Now to a New 4 TB T7 SSD Time
Machine Drive Versus Two Days for the Old Western Digital Drive
After Reformatting That Time Machine 5 TB Mechanical BackupDrive
It Did Take close to a Day to Recover The Files From the Old 5TB Time
Machine Drive yet Key hehe is it worked ‘Perfectly’ as a Good Machine Will
S L O W L Y
Do too
i’ll Keep an Extra
Backup on a Monthly
Basis for the Old Noise
Making 5TB Time Machine Drive
Yet Now It’s Endless Peace in Silence
Springing Creativity in Harmony More Than
Ever Before
Hehe yes
in Excruciating
Detail too Yet Lesson
Learned Perhaps the 2TB
Fusion Drive wasn’t such a good
Idea
from
the
get go Hehe
On the Old iMac
That is Now Refurbished
With a Fresh New Mac OS Install on That
Super Fast External T7 SSD 2 TB Drive
My Wife Inheriting it Now Adding it to the
23 Foot By 25 Foot Great Room Kingdom
She Still Rules With All Her Big Screen HDTV
Recorded DVR Mystery Television Shows While
my Man Cave
Still Consists
of a 27 inch
Screen Still in the
Corner of the Bedroom
With at Least a 24 Inch
Window to See Out into Eden
(i Do Have a 40 Inch HDTV too
Yet TV Is So B O R iN G to me)
While She Gets an 8 Foot Wide
By 5 Foot High Picture Window
View of Our Garden
of Eden For Real
In her Great Room
Yet Key Always Key
Keep ‘Eve’ Happy
Whatever it Takes
Day or Night With SMiLes…
True Hehe “Endless Stories BREaTHE NoW NeW”
Just More Proof HeaR With Chess Hire Cat SMiles
1180
Words
LiN
GeR
iNG
Always Now
sooner than soon..:)
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*21,377 MiLes
True i Make
Mistakes too
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Minor edit
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I hope your laptop is okay
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Fantastic! I didn’t know all I really needed was some HUGcetamol and some KISSpirin to get well soon. Get well soon buddy. Love and light.
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Thanks baby giril ❤️
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there’s always a crack in everything and that’s how light get in…. word👍
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You know the vibes 💕
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Hugs and kisses keep the doctor away.
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Unless it’s Doctor Strange 😅
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“Rock bottom is a solid foundation to build your life. “
Nothing more real than the above 🥹
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Aww glad you resonated with it 🤗
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If you don’t give it a try, you won’t know you can do it.
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And that’s why it’s important to at least try
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“I would rather go through life sober, believing I’m an alcoholic, than go through life drunk…
Trying to convince myself I’m not.”
Really honest take right there.
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Factos 😆
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