Sobriety!
My intention of OHR was to get through it so I could lower my jail sentence and continue what I was doing back east. Drinking and using! I had no intention of quitting drinking. I was a drunk driver and only thought of myself. Drinking and using was the only way I knew how to get out of myself and enjoy life. Spending thirty days in the recovery center my thoughts were beginning to change. I began to make friends and things began to be more real to me. OHR helped me see hope that I thought I could never achieve.
Once my thirty days was up, I said to myself now what. Am I to move back and continue the drunken using path I was on, or stay and give it a shot. Well, I decided to stay, get a job, and continue to stay sober. Two and a half years later, I'm still sober, I have my own roof over my head, and I live in southern california where I can find serenity myself. I still continue to learn to live sober with the help of the program, a higher power that is not me, and the friends that I have made. I consider myself the luckiest guy on the planet because I should be in jail, in an institution, or dead like a lot of friends I know. I learned little things such as live one day at a time, thinking of others is better than thinking of yourself all the time. Being able to write things on paper that generally disarm the problems that I hold up inside myself. Thank god for Ocean Hills Recovery for being the stepping stone of my new life that I know is not perfect, but is progressing slowly to my ultimate goals in life. I'm only 27 and I have a lot to look forward to.
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