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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI finish my 75th trip around Old Sol today and am a few months into my 40th year of sobriety.
Pretty good for an old drunk surfrat from SoCal.
These are my hopes for our cross section of humanity here on DU.
May we all know peace and good health. May we continue to find ways to serve our families, our communities, and the larger entities weve divided ourselves into. In pursuit of this service, may we recognize our teachers and learn well from them.
May we passionately reject injustice where we encounter it, and may our sense of humor stay clear and strong so we can remain sane as We trudge the road of happy destiny.
Gratitude,
Magoo48
Skittles
(171,603 posts)all these kind of personal milestones of sobriety let others who are struggling know it CAN be done, and life gets better
thanks for the lovely sentiments!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Walleye
(44,720 posts)I quit drinking on my 45th birthday
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)niyad
(132,221 posts)a lovely message you gave us.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)marble falls
(71,869 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,788 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)WmChris
(724 posts)I hope you are enjoying the promises as much as I am.
We are not told we skip down the road to happy destiny but the trudging does become much easier with the steps of the program. Congratulations!!
Marthe48
(23,135 posts)mountain grammy
(29,009 posts)and many more!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)2naSalit
(102,622 posts)May you circle the sun as many times as you like! I have a few rounds to go, it seems, so I'll be with you for some of them!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)murielm99
(32,971 posts)I finished my 75th trip around at the end of August. Most of us who make it this far have overcome a thing or two.
I am glad you are here with us.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)ggma
(711 posts)AMEN.
Happy birthday!
gg
DinahMoeHum
(23,592 posts)Jimmy Buffett certainly did.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Love jimmy and Martina
ChazInAz
(3,016 posts)75 and 40! That's a looong time for both! I'm sneaking up on the former and a bit past the latter.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(12,051 posts)One day at a time.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(12,051 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Tikki
(15,133 posts)and anniversary.
Tikki
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)RainCaster
(13,684 posts)Happy birthday and thanks for the kind reminder.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)wendyb-NC
(4,683 posts)Congratulations, you're living it, to maintain it and to still be wonderfully inspired in sobriety.
Thank you for posting the news and the beautiful, reflection.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Alliepoo
(2,825 posts)Wishing you many more happy, healthy trips around old Sol! Just want to say your 40 years of sobriety is an awesome achievement. Good on you! Thank you for the lovely blessings- touched my heart.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)MLAA
(19,738 posts)Happy Birthday and congrats on your milestone of 40 years!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)iluvtennis
(21,496 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)ancianita
(43,303 posts)
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)ancianita
(43,303 posts)Dulcinea
(10,058 posts)And happy birthday to a fellow October baby...I'll be 58 on Saturday.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)randr
(12,642 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)gademocrat7
(11,928 posts)Enjoy your special day.👏🎂🎉
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(16,205 posts)Now onto 40 years, a few months and one day of sobriety
Attilatheblond
(8,849 posts)Hope you get your wish of us all passionately rejecting injustice where we encounter it. That is a fine hope and speaks well of your values.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)madashelltoo
(1,828 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)LoisB
(12,976 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Goddessartist
(2,176 posts)You're an inspiration to us All!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)1WorldHope
(2,047 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)1WorldHope
(2,047 posts)Happy 40 too
Donkees
(33,681 posts)
The Great Solar Flare Wave
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)On both achievements!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)mitch96
(15,798 posts)Another trip around the sun sounds a lot better than "I'm a year older". More picturesque also.
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Magoo48
(6,720 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,875 posts)By the way, if you fly REALLY fast the other way, you'll get younger.
According to a 40 year old Superman movie, anyway!

Happy Birthday.
On edit to say...Jesus Giphy Christ, there's a .gif for almost everything! I typed "Superman reverses time gif" and got a BUNCH of these!!!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,875 posts)And if you ask your computer to find something, it magically does!
Except for a ham sandwich. It can't find the ham sandwich I made 3 days ago. I'll just have to wait till my nose helps me find it!
LOL....
Giphy has all sorts of them;
https://giphy.com/
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)It may be a bit ripe after three days, but if you can find Superman ..
A HERETIC I AM
(24,875 posts)Again, Happy Birthday.
May you have many more.
tblue37
(68,422 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)electric_blue68
(26,830 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)tavernier
(14,433 posts)Hope yours is as good as mine was.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Scottie Mom
(5,838 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,635 posts)I just turned 67 a couple weeks ago.
I'm catching up to you, though.
When I was 1, you were 800% of my age. Now, you're only 12% older than me!
Nice post, BTW.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,635 posts)Told her when she was one i was 33 times her age. Now, I'm not even twice as old. Told her she is getting old faster than me.
She's a BS/RN, so it amused her.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)yonder
(10,287 posts)This Thanksgiving will be my first year a little easier than expected and boy howdy, am I ever thankful.
- a fellow traveler on that road to service and happy destiny.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Happy Birthday and Congrats from another old ex drunk raised in SoCal.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Faux pas
(16,343 posts)welcome for sure Magoo48! January will be my 31st year booze free, you have a 10 year head start on me
BlueKota
(5,324 posts)and congratulations!
fierywoman
(8,587 posts)senseandsensibility
(24,902 posts)Happy belated birthday, and congrats on that achievement!
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littlemissmartypants
(33,345 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)littlemissmartypants
(33,345 posts)Solly Mack
(96,920 posts)Congrats!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)LiberalLoner
(11,467 posts)Lasting sobriety! 👏👏👏👏
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Sunny Daze
(209 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,507 posts)That's a whole lot of one-day-at-a-times!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)TSExile
(3,363 posts)Happy birthday and congrats on your sobriety milestone. You are an inspiration. God bless you!!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Xavier Breath
(6,639 posts)the earth travels roughly 584 million miles in one orbit of the sun, so in your life you have traveled 43.8 billion miles through space! Too bad we don't get American Advantage or Sky Miles for that.
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)I feel a new sense of accomplishment. Thanks!
Xavier Breath
(6,639 posts)if they would have just realized that.
Permanut
(8,365 posts)Congratulations on so many trips around Sol, and on your phenomenal quit
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)Mblaze
(1,014 posts)👍 👍
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)orangecrush
(30,169 posts)At a time
Congratulations!
Magoo48
(6,720 posts)soldierant
(9,348 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)applegrove
(132,083 posts)Magoo48
(6,720 posts)retread
(3,919 posts)trajectory like you did.
Next summer will be my 45th as a teetotaler.
ecstatic
(35,066 posts)If I make it that long.