It Works at Work (If You Work It)

I've been sober for a little more than three years, and each year (heck, each month) of sobriety makes it clearer and clearer how little I know about living life on life's terms. But it's also clearer and clearer that I don't have to do it alone; I have a basis for living in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. I feel as though each year sober I gain about seven years of emotional growth, so at age fifty I'm taking on life as a college-aged woman, and if I'm still sober at age seventy, emotionally I'll be 141 years old! My first sponsor used to say I think too much, and I guess that still holds true. My mind runs like a horse that's escaped its corral. But I'm in the process of recreating myself, which is tricky any way you look at it, but trickier around people who knew me "when" and don't know where I'm coming from now, since I choose to remain anonymous.